Publisher's Synopsis
Lizzie, who became pregnant while at Oxford and refused to tell the father, sets up a snail farm near Bath to make her dysfunctional family's fortune. But because snails take three years to reproduce and provide a return on the investment, there's a struggle to make ends meet in the meantime. The enterprise is aided by cocaine smuggling from the States because Granny has unwittingly married the drug overlord in Virginia, USA. During this time a colourful cast of family and friends share their highly complex lives and problems...
