Product Description

Roxanne Pellegrino's world collapses when her husband dies unexpectedly. The only way she feels she can deal with her all-consuming grief is to run away from her life. She leaves her home, her career and her friends, heading for Peaks Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine. A former psychologist, she finds herself taking a job as an animal warden and reinventing her past so it doesn't include the tragedy of her husband's death. But despite Roxanne's best efforts to cut herself off from her emotions and people in general, she finds herself drawn to her quirky new neighbours. And then Roxanne meets Lloyd. Lloyd is a stray dog, a large black Labrador retriever who clearly has been woefully mistreated. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded dog. And as both slowly begin to heal, Roxanne begins to deal with her grief and discover that happiness can be found in unexpected places...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68045 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers. She is currently the fiction editor for Patchwork Journal, an online journal sponsored by Patchwork Farm, an internationally based writing center. Jacqueline teaches workshops on writing and the combination of yoga and writing.

Customer Reviews

Refreshing & intelligent read
This book tackles the topic of grief and coping with being the person left behind in a lovely way. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone.

Lost & Found
Loved this book - it had a bit of everything thrown in, a good story to it and I wasn't expecting the mystery aspect. I thoroughly enjoyed it and got through it very quickly, I would certainly recommend reading this.

Lost & Found
After reading 'A Friend Like Henry' and 'Marley and Me' I couldn't wait to get stuck into another K9 book. I must say in comparison with these other 2 books I was disappointed with the content. It didn't keep me wanting to read on, the story wasn't as gripping. I quite happily set the book down at bedtime and didn't think about it again til the next night. That said, I did enjoy the book just not as much as the others.

I haven't stopped here though, I am already into my next K9 book.