The story is a comedy about friendship, love, hate and society in the English seaside town of Southwold, and centers on the main characters, female writer Victoria About ("pronounced Abut") and the friends and relatives she has invited for a month.

The plot centers on Victoria About, a prolific female English writer, who has invited some of her friends and relatives to come and stay at a seaside house she has rented in Southwold.

Little does she know that when the guests discover she has hidden spycams all over the house, and when she gets trapped in the attic by all her friends and relatives, her life and her book start to take a twist.

(Finding Myself, page 386) Indeed, you get, in the handwriting of Victoria's editor Simona, cuts, remarks, advice and replacements in the margins of the book.

Litt manages to have a very convincing female I-narrator, and by making use of the "day-to-day" narration, the book sounds very real.