Other People's Diaries

Alice Day has brought together five strangers to take part in an experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author change their lives - and perhaps her own - for the better?

The participants are a working mother stretched to breaking point, a childless woman whose only solace is fashion, a divorced father, a teacher who hates her job but loves a married man and a widow in her sixties hiding a painful secret.

It is the little things that make life worth living, or so Alice's theory goes. Her aim is to see if the tasks she emails each group member can slowly turn their lives around.

But with any experiment, there are outcomes. The small changes Alice suggests set off much larger ones and a betrayal dramatically affects everyone's lives in ways, that at first glance, are not for the better at all...