Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
Nina is interviewed by George and meets Max and Joe for the first time at Gloucester Crescent.
Nina goes on an awkward date with Nunney, the good-looking boy who lives over the road.
Nina and George decide to give away Lucas, the family cat, but when Joe finds this out they have to get him back.
Nina is determined to strike up a friendship with Amanda, another nanny.
When Nina accidentally crashes George’s car she sets in chain a series of mishaps that may lead to her leaving the house for good.
