Lambing Season follows a young woman, a newly disabled illustrator, as she comes to terms with a body that can no longer produce art. Desperate for stability in the wake of her diagnosis, she follows an impulse to move to rural Wales and become engaged to a near stranger, a misanthropic airplane pilot living in a rundown house to save money while attending flight school. The pair are united by their recklessness and little else. Putting immense faith in the redemptive power of marriage, they sustain their unhappy relationship by cutting themselves off from the wider world. Only when the wedding is cancelled does the narrator finally find the courage to confront the loss of her health-and her career-and make a new life for herself.