Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can__APOS__t hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, __QUOTE__One Big Happy Family.__QUOTE__ Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, __QUOTE__I thought she was dead,__QUOTE__ Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca__APOS__s autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca__APOS__s property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca__APOS__s building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick__APOS__s attention - and wins his heart.
