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Stella has spent years being sensible: a steady office job sorting out insurance claims at an engineering firm, a nice house, a reliable husband, and two teenage children who think she's just a boring mum.

Back in 1996, she was a firebrand eco-activist who once chained herself to the bucket of the excavator her future husband, Steve, was driving.

When a chance encounter beneath the ancient branches of the Lucky Oak reveals that the local woods are under threat from her own employer, Stella is...