Cheer up Mr. Widdicombe

"The inimitable--some might say incorrigible--Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife Carol believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home--Willowbrook Manor on the Puget Sound--is just the thing to cheer her husband up. And so begins a whirlwind summer as their house becomes the epicenter of multiple social dramas involving the family their friends and a host of new acquaintances. The Widdicombes' son Christopher is mourning a heartbreak after a year abroad in Italy. Their personal assistant Michelle begins a romance with preppy screenwriter Bradford who also happens to be Frank's tennis partner. Meanwhile a local named Marvelous Matthews is hired to create a garden at the manor--and is elated to find Gracie Sloane bewitching self-help author in residence as well. When this alternately bumbling and clever cast of characters comes together Willowbrook transforms into a circus of uncovered secrets preposterous misunderstandings and irrepressible passions."--