The Year of the Dog: How One Tiny Terrier Ruined My Sofa but Saved My Life

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Absolute heaven. Jilly CooperA hilarious and heartfelt year following one woman and her puppy from chaos and tears to healing and new beginnings. Its a love story, but not as you know it.

Raising a puppy is simple: feed them, walk them, love them. Right Wrong.

Armed with Pinterest-perfect plans and firm ideas about training, Sophia brings Dennis a scruffy and defiant Parson terrier into her life. But just as the puppy pads hit the floor, the rest of her world falls apart.

Suddenly single and quietly unravelling, Sophia finds herself solo parenting a tiny, gleeful agent of chaos who devours foam earplugs, destroys her shoes, and has an alarming taste for spiders. Hes also the only thing keeping her afloat.

As the months roll by in a haze of dodgy first dates, sleepless nights and meltdowns in the park, Sophia begins to make sense of it all: the grief of a life that didnt go to plan, the weirdness of being single in your late thirties, and the surprising ways love shows up when you least expect it.

By the end of their first year together, Dennis hasnt just wrecked the furniture hes quietly rebuilt her life.

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'Absolute heaven.' Jilly Cooper

The Year of the Dog is SUCH a gorgeous book, I cant imagine anyone reading this and not loving it. By turns hilarious, entertaining and heartbreakingly honest, its an unforgettable love story youll want to buy for all your friends. Im already waiting for the sequel! Jill Mansell

Tender, hilarious and moving. Daisy Buchanan

This made me laugh like a drain on a packed Underground commute, and I havent even got a dog. Andrew Hunter Murray

Author Bio

Sophia Money-Coutts is a 32-year-old journalist who has worked as Features Director at Tatler for the past five years. Prior to that she worked as a writer and an editor for The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail in London, and The National in Abu Dhabi.