Three single friends in their late fifties buy a hundred year old”megalith of faded brick” on sixteen acres in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the novel A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball. A money pit pretty well sums up what they have bought. Three women with three dreams for a new life and new lifestyle. Great reading about their dilemmas and how they surmount problem after problem and make a new life and new friends.