Eighteen short breaks around the UK for sports widows to enjoy - either travelling alone or with a friend. Each trip averages two nights away, often staying in unusual places like an avant-garde aparthotel in a sustainable village near Cambridge, and in the grounds of a Benedictine Abbey in Herefordshire. Every journey is special in that readers are directed to places not always mentioned elsewhere. Examples include a village evacuated in 1943, a perfectly imperfect interiors store near Ross-on-Wye, and a stunningly beautiful old cloth hall that was saved from demolition by just one vote. Each chapter has a recommended book linked to the destination, and a colour illustration drawn by a local and/or a well-known illustrator.