Jasmine Butler has been fired from her job and is starting one year of gardening leave. After the first few weeks she feels unsettled and doesn't really know how to fill up the empty days ahead. Up to this point she has always been really busy and hasn't had time to get to know her neighbours.
Matt Marshall and his family lives across the road. He is a late night radio chat show DJ. Jasmine has never met him but for many years has disliked him since hearing one of his late night phone-in shows.
Jasmine decides to dig up her paved front garden, lay a lawn and introduce plants and flowers. Whilst working in the garden she gets to know a number of her neighbours. Matt is regularly locked out of his house and starts to spend evenings sitting in his front garden drinking, especially after his wife leaves him. Jasmine does not want to to get to know Matt or help him, but they keep being thrown together. Jasmine and Matt help each other work through their problems, and whilst gardening Jasmine has the time to reassess her life and learn some important lessons about herself.
This is not a love story, but Jasmine and Matt do really need to learn from each other to help straighten out their own lives and move forwards. It is a really interesting story where gardening leave is taken really literally!
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