Of Jennifer's adventures with cottages and clergymen and clergymen's maiden sisters.... Jennifer Dodge is a 33 year old single woman living with her famous author-father on Gower Street in London in the early 1930s. Since her mother's death, she has been her father's unpaid assistant. When he unexpectedly marries a much younger woman, instead of feeling displaced, she feels free for the first time. Her attempts at finding the longed-for independence are complicated, touching and comic.