This book is a diary, it is a year in the life of Jean who is a house sitter. Jean travels around mainland Britain to provide her services, she looks after houses and animals. Mainly she has cats and dogs to care for but sometimes she has other animals such as rabbits, chickens, tortoises and goats.
Jean is trying to juggle the time she needs to be away for work with her home life where she has a husband and son. Her husband just wants a quiet life and time to spend writing his books and their teenage son keeps getting into trouble at school. When Jean is away they live on take-away food and never bother with any housework or washing.
Whilst working Jean finds herself in lots of unusual situations. She has a past client who claims that her dog must have become pregnant whilst Jean was in charge as the litter is of mongrel and not pedigree dogs, she has the police turn up on the doorstep as a neighbour thinks the house is being burgled, and one client turns out to be a bigamist. She weathers the storm of all the unusual situations whilst also trying to sort out her son's life and keep him on track to pass his exams.
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