From Austen to Brown... a giant table in Liverpool to hidden churches in London... New York to Edinburgh... and cannibalistic spiders to a horse named Twilight... When Lynn's family seemed finally to have overcome a series of disasters, and her husband was at last in recovery from cancer, she thought that it was time to focus on recovering herself. She decided to have some treats - not frivolous material things but exploratory, enriching experiences. Then life threw up a new obstacle and she found the problems weren't over. In fact they were about to get much worse - and suddenly the treats become something far more; they became a lifeline. A life-affirming story full of humour, trivia and lots of lists.