Publisher's Synopsis
This is the diary of Rita - a Home Care Worker - about her, her life, her useless husband and her sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, sometimes strange, ultimately life-affirming, uplifting experiences on the front line supporting elderly people in their own homes. With meditations on pay, conditions, zero hours contracts, dentures, guns, money and a lack thereof, racism, sexual assault, suicide, smoked salmon, Tiffany bracelets, dementia, tattoos, her son Richard, Tinder, families, fish and chips, Lady Gaga (not that one) and a brief, but telling, appearance by Lucan the cat. If you want to know why Social Care in Britain is in a mess and what can and should be done about it, this is the book to read - but with people like Rita around, we might just stand a chance.
