13 seasons-old-new Yorker Jenny Gluckstein life a lifestyle that’s, or even spectacularly great, at least tolerable in order to their particular. She shares a flat together with her mom, Sally, with the Top Western Front. She is not well-known at school, however, comes with a couple of close friends. And you can even with are quick, that have spots, not being elegant, and having no idea when or if she’ll actually begin to have a fact, Jenny (never Jennifer) brings morale off a virtually bond together with her cat, who is entitled Mr. Cat. Upcoming their own mom Sally upsets that which you by the deciding to marry their particular English boyfriend, Evan Davies. The idea of transferring to England is actually anathema for Jenny, nonetheless it gets worse: Evan is a soil biologist, and you can countries a career restoring Stourhead Ranch into the Dorset – Thomas Hardy nation. Jenny has some alterations making, and makes them once we you’ll expect a sensible and you may quite tough teenager to do: reluctantly. Then Mister Cat, finally freed immediately following their six-week quarantine since the a several-footed immigrant, initiate staying company with a charming cigarette smoking-gray Persian which has-been a ghost (that could explain a number of the smoky high quality).