Please do not be put off by the title of this book, it is an unusual, original and fresh story!

A Black Swan Book published in 1993 by Transworld Publishers Ltd, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA.  This copy is a 1996 reprint.

287 pages.  Original cost £6.99.

Amelia Lindsey had a grandmother, Selma, whom she loved, a mother whom she bore with patient fortitude.

Her mother, Dagmar spent much of her time scrubbing the backs of wardrobes and wiping clothes-hangers with Dettol-drenched J-cloths.

And then there was Gerald, who had fallen in love with Amelia two years earlier, when he was in his artistic phase and had begged her to move in with him.  Now, no longer in his artistic phase, he was showing signs of irritation.

Selma, the talented and much loved grandmother who had given Amelia a home and family background that Dagmar was unable to provide, became old.

As life - and Gerald - began to collapse all round her, Amelia was determined that Selma would not suffer.

Fighting a one woman battle against Cherryfield retirement home, against Gerald's defection and her mother's obsession with germs, she found herself capable of plots, diversions and friendships she had never encountered before...