About the book

Secret Life in the Village is a collection of 30 bedtime stories set in Olhos d'Água, a small, sun-warmed fishing village on Portugal's Algarve coast.

Sergeant Rufus, a Miniature Pinscher with a very large job that nobody actually gave him, patrols the beach every morning. He is helped, hindered and quietly outmatched by Dotty, Stephanie, Carl, Sushi, Kookie Eyes and the rest of the village.

Every story is written to be read aloud and is short enough for one sitting. Nothing is really an emergency, even when Rufus insists otherwise, and each one ends settled, unhurried and ready for sleep.