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Lucinda Ellis has never really mastered the knack for dealing with people. So she usually avoids them. Until her sister, Jayne, takes a sudden trip to America and Lucinda's perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos. With Jayne's husband stranded in a remote Aboriginal community, Lucinda is forced to take charge of Jayne's children and their ridiculous little dachshund, Wilma. Then there is the malingering presence of teenage Emo Wesley Heslop, who's taken up residence on the living room couch, the mysterious disappearance of a stuffed eclectus parrot from the museum where she works, and the disarming affections of Madison's challenging 'second-best' friend, Kieran Waterford.

Lucinda Ellis has never really mastered the knack for dealing with people. So she usually avoids them. Until her sister, Jayne, takes a sudden trip to America and Lucinda's perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos. With Jayne's husband stranded in a remote Aboriginal community, Lucinda is forced to take charge of Jayne's children and their ridiculous little dachshund, Wilma. Then there is the malingering presence of teenage Emo Wesley Heslop, who's taken up residence on the living room couch, the mysterious disappearance of a stuffed eclectus parrot from the museum where she works, and the disarming affections of Madison's challenging 'second-best' friend, Kieran Waterford.