Life is full of surprises. Like when you accidentally emigrate...

One minute, 23 year-old Megan was studying for a degree in Business Studies in her native Scotland, the next, she was living in a run-down Andalusian townhouse with nine dogs.

'A Butterfly in December' is the humorous, true account of her first year in Spain, where nothing ever seems to go quite to plan, and where expat eccentricity abounds. It is a tale of triumph in the face of adversity, of friendship and of falling in love in a foreign language.