<p>A hilarious tale of restoring and running two holiday cottages in a remote hamlet of SW France.&nbsp;As the world&#39;s worst housekeeper, running holiday homes wasn&#39;t, with hindsight, a sensible idea. But two collapsing buildings on Susie Kelly&#39;s land would cost more to demolish than to restore. Thus she became a seasonal landlady.</p>

<p>Before the guests came the builders. No&#39;s 1, 2, 3 all started promisingly, but by builder No. 4, and with her first guests just hours away, her patience was stretched to its limit. Her summer and winter visitors couldn&#39;t, as they say, be made up, though, to spare their blushes some of them have been air-brushed. They brought with them laughter, tears, romance, friendship and occasional madness. And they all left behind jars of jam and pots of pepper. From them Susie learned that you don&#39;t need to travel to find adventure. If you run holiday homes it comes to your doorstep. Unfortunately for Susie this included Ivy. The cleaning lady from hell.</p>