Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish ??migr?? neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs And although they mistrust each other at first, a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket