About the book: year / Diana Wynne Jones is an English storyteller, author of "Chrestomanci" and "The Walking Castle" (yes, the same one based on Miyazaki's film). The book, the translation of which I present to your attention today, has never been translated into Russian. The reason, I think, is simple: the translator who undertakes to translate this book needs to understand astronomy. Where can I get this? Well, here I am. The book was written in 1975. I am absolutely sure that Rowling read it and created her Sirius Black, based on the image created by Diana Jones. If someone with editorial skills would like to do a literary editing of the text, I will send a text file. ***The title of the book contains many meanings. Dogsbody is a “six” in English, a person doing hard and thankless “dog” work. This is exactly the situation in which the main character, the star Sirius, finds himself, who was accused of murdering another star. For this, Sirius is sent to Earth in the guise of... those who have read my articles on astronomy have already understood in what form - of course, in the guise of a dog. He must find some incredibly powerful artifact there; only then will he be allowed to return to heaven. If he cannot do this, he will die on Earth. The deadline for completing the task is the life of the dog. “Six” also serves as a girl named Kathleen, the daughter of an Irish terrorist prisoner, who, out of mercy, lives with her English relatives and constantly endures their nagging and reproaches. Kathleen saves tiny Sirius and becomes his owner, but in order to be allowed to keep the dog, she agrees to do all the housework, which does not make any less nagging and reproaches. But being a house dog is not so easy if you are faced with the task of finding I don’t know what. Even if the Sun, Earth and Moon help you…***