The Girls of Friar's Rise

This is another of Courtney's cleaning books where the characters enthusiastically wash down walls and scrub floors and make you feel very virtuous without the effort of actually cleaning your own house. Also a great read when you're in the middle of moving house or spring cleaning yourself to give you motivation! You will feel grateful for the invention of the vacuum cleaner...
This book is also another where the parents go off leaving the children to cope alone (which of course they do marvellously). I have always loved that particular subgenre of children's literature.