About the book: 2020 / After the divorce of Lizzie's parents, her older sister, younger brother and Labrador Debbie were forced to move from a luxurious London mansion to a crooked village house. There are meadows around, open spaces and beauty, but the neighbors look gloomily sideways, no one cooks food, the washing machine rebelled, and my mother writes plays without a break. Lizzie and her sister, worried that sooner or later they will be sent to an orphanage, and their mother will be left alone with her plays, decide to take care of the future themselves. And first of all, you need to decide on the “man at the helm,” or simply the man in the house. In the early 1970s, a single mother, even from an aristocratic family, was not worth a penny, and until there was a “man at the helm” in the house, life would not improve. Thus begins a grandiose campaign to select suitable candidates. A witty, uncontrollably funny novel that is immediately reminiscent of “The Diaries of Adrian Mole” by Sue Townsend and “Jeeves and Wooster” by P. G. Wodehouse. Contains obscene language.