The Women's Work Books

In a little corner of rhe idyllic English County of Barsetshire, economic realities have caught up with a group of women. Do they knuckle down and work a little harder, like their forbears, toiling over a loom, accepting the hand that fate has dealt them and waiting, fingers-crossed, for better times ahead?

Or do they find their own solution? Get on their bikes? Try a little self-help?

There are opportunities. Not exactly risk-free, but certainly lucrative. There are practical and moral considerations too, but it is the Twenty-first century. Take the Banks, for example - they don't seem to have been doing a very good job of looking after money lately. In fact, when you open your eyes a little, there are plenty of potential crimes that don't seem all that criminal...