A year has passed since Ivy Beasley, an ageing spinster with a quick tongue and an all seeing eye, watched with deep suspicion as her new neighbours, the Palmers, moved into Round Ringford Post office in Pastures New. But Ivy has not changed her ways. Who will come under her watchful gaze first? Will it be Peggy Palmer's, with her warm friendship with unhappily married Bill Turner. Or the new vicar, Nigel, and his wife, Sophie. Or even Robert Bates...