Over ten years ago Katherine Ryan arrived in the UK as a naive Hooters waitress with skin-coloured hair and hair-coloured skin. Far away from all friends and family, she turned 25, the economy crashed, she gave birth to her British daughter, and said daughter's father turned out to be whatever a nice way of saying "loser" is. Single and trapped in a foreign country, things got tough. Through tenacity, audacity and gratitude, she has now done a reverse Meghan Markle, and is ready to assume her rightful status as the nation's sweetheart. Covering the ups, the downs, the dead ends and the good (and the bad) work, Katherine Ryan's publishing debut is a meticulously funny look at quite how far a Canadian with a designer dog obsession can go, and how far you could go, too.