"In sixty-eight years, Valeria has never minced her words. Harrumphing through her isolated little village deep in the Hungarian steppes, she clutches her shopping basket like a battering ram and leaves nothing uncriticised. But one day, her spinster's heart is struck by an unlikely arrow: the village potter. Valeria finds herself suddenly dressing in florals and touching her hair, and what's more, smiling at people in the street. The problem with all this is that Ibolya (herself at least fifty-eight) has been romancing the potter for months and vows to win him back."--Publisher description.