Meet Vera Slater, a modest, middle-aged woman living in post-war New Zealand. After three ‎decades as a housewife and now facing financial ruin, she is compelled to enter the workforce. ‎Employment changes everything for her. She discovers that a lack of formal education, life experience ‎and reduced circumstance matter little when motivation and self-belief are at hand. George her ‎husband of thirty years cannot keep up. Her fulfilment becomes his dismay as she embraces her new ‎life wholeheartedly. Vera is inspirational, demonstrating that humble beginnings need not spell the ‎extinction of one's hopes and dreams. This is the second book in the series: the first, The Elusive ‎Silver Lining, is not required reading for enjoyment of A Peculiar Coupling.‎