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From Angela Douglas - Author

 

Right ... first impressions - I loved it. I really did.

 

In fact, 2 stories in particular, a dog in one and a pony in another, both coming to the end of their life, with the Vet's assistance.

 

I had tears rolling down my cheek which for a storyteller is a good sign. In fact, just before I got to the dog story, I’d had a fairly stiff argument with  my husband over the central heating blowing up and who had forgotten to call the technician. I went back to the sitting room and resumed reading. Got all choked up as Skip the kelpie wasn’t going to rally and there was the little boy cradling him as you, by now quite adept in such matters,  gently broke the news to him that his much loved Skip would indeed die. At that exact moment my husband came back in to the room. I’m weeping. My husband has never been more apologetic!