The Sound of Music meets Fawlty Towers in this Austria-lian adventure. Penny Baker-Fischer was a dynamic, moderately successful yet ambitious inner-city dwelling international marketing exec, but upon turning forty, a new man arriving and being made redundant, her life changed quickly and dramatically. In March 2004, she stumbled across a website featuring an old and rather battered guesthouse for sale high in the Austrian Alps south of Salzburg. It looked to have "potential." Without ever having viewed the business or even visited the area, contracts were completed and significant sums of...