No.1 - XMAS 2006 edition.   Editor: BB Edwards
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WHAT DO AN ACCOUNTANT, A SCHOOLGIRL, AN MP, AND JILLY COOPER HAVE IN COMMON?

They are all bereaved pet owners. And in Farewell, my Lovely (Garret Books, £6.99), they, along with many others, tell their story of what it’s like to love and lose an animal. This collection of tales – with poetry, prose and 30+ line drawings – is touching and amusing, and gives a fascinating insight into our relationship with animals, be it cat or dog, mouse or horse, rabbit, snake or hen.
   Farewell, my Lovely also includes interviews with people who work with animals at London Zoo, the Blue Cross, and Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, and people with a public profile such as Jilly Cooper, Ann Widdecombe and David Blunkett, who care about animal welfare. Celia Haddon, the Daily Telegraph’s pet agony aunt, has written the foreword.
   “It’s fair to say that owning a pet will undoubtedly end in tears and, of course, there is sadness in this book,” says the author Susie Cornfield, “but Farewell, my Lovely also celebrates the boundless fun, pure joy, and unquestioning love which an animal brings into your life to enrich it more than you can imagine.”
STOP PRESS: As featured in the Mail on Sunday's You magazine in December and recommended on Classic FM's Book Review.

First published September, 2006 
Reprinted December, 2006

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