Lizzie Jordan considers herself one of life’s failures. Unlike her high-flying friends, Lizzie works as a typist, shares a grubby flat and “makes do” with her accountant boyfriend. But she has a secret love – Brian, a handsome American that she dated at university, five years ago. In her emails to him she pretends her life is a whirl of extravagant parties and million-pound business deals. Then Brian announces he’s coming to stay! Lizzie’s secret life is about to be rumbled unless she comes up with a cunning plan…