Laura is in the midst of a midlife crisis – she’s reeling after a bad divorce which has left her self-confidence at rock bottom Securing a job she loves as a housekeeper to an elderly man in a large redbrick Victorian villa keeps her occupied  but she’s hardly thriving by winding up a little blue enamel clock once a day  while Anthony Peardew adds to his collection of lost things he finds in the streets and parks in the neighbourhood and which people bring to him