In A Job for Susan, her parents are at last returned from Africa, after three years during which Susan lived with her Carmichael cousins in Wichwood. Fortunately Mr and Mrs Lyle are equally enchanted with Wichwood Village, and rent Maggie Zimmerli’s little house just five minutes walk from the Carmichaels’. Christmas is on its way, but Bill is feeling only panic as he realises his rash promise to raise £10 for Oxfam over the holidays must be fulfilled. Susan happily springs into action to help him out, and embarks on a spurt of inexpert but enthusiastic fundraising. Once they find out the value of rare coins, their search for a 1953 penny becomes the stuff of farce, but a trip to the bank to acquire a small sack of change results in the capture of some local hoodlums.