Kate Macdougall: London's No1 Dog Walking Agency

Kate Macdougall's memoir London's No. 1 Dog Walking Agency is an entertaining perspective on a left-field profession and a coming of age story. Armed with a degree in Art History, and eschewing a back office job at Sotheby's auction house, it tells of Kate's efforts to strike out on her own, starting up in business as a dog walker for busy Londoners whose pets otherwise faced long and boring days home alone. While receiving strict instructions about diet, mud and treasured balls, Kate got the measure of other peoples' lives, and, as she tells Lynn Freeman, her own.