Tyler's Row, the collection of four run-down cottages in Fairacre, is up for sale. The current owner no longer feels up to maintaining them. In fact, not much maintenance has been done for years. There's much speculation around the village about who might purchase property with two curmudgeonly tenants who can't be removed. However soon a lovely couple moves in and finds the village welcoming and the tenants more difficult than anticipated.

As with all Miss Read books this is a relaxing story with only a few mild episodes that are at all stress provoking. Just takes of rural village life. Pleasant. Sweet. Beautiful images of gardens and the countryside