Beware Au Pair

"AU PAIR wanted for happy English home in the country, own room, daily kept, one day a week free time. Write box Q.1237, The Times, E.C.4."

This was the innocent-looking advertisement which brought young, naive Swiss girl Liselotte Durand to Britain. But she soon found out that life in England was far from conventional.
She met some very odd people, such as the crusty bicycle-riding Major; Mr. Dorman-Jones who enjoyed his own corny jokes if no-one else did; and Kate Carter, who wrote excellent advice on organisation for a woman's paper, but kept her own home in disorganised chaos!
She worked for two eccentric and picturesque bachelors in Chelsea and was later employed to care for a neurotic poodle who hated to be left alone. Liselotte also caught a glimpse of the wild teenage scene, where drug parties and sex orgies seemed to be commonplace.