Sophie From Romania [electronic resource] : A Year of Love and Hope With a Rescue Dog
Cellan-Jones, Rory2025
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How do you welcome someone new into your home and heart? A week before Christmas, newlyretired BBC journalist and award-winning Movers and Shakers podcaster Rory Cellan-Jones receives a special delivery that will change the course of his life. This is the story of #SophieFromRomania, told in full for the first time.In January 2022, the Cellan-Jones-Coyle family said goodbye to their beloved elderly Collie cross, Cabbage. She and Rory had become inseparable during daily pandemic walks, which alleviated hisParkinson’s symptoms. After a grief-stricken year, Rory and his wife Diane come across a listing for‘a kind girl who loves everybody and is just looking for her forever home’.Bright-eyed, big-eared and trembling, Sophie arrives in London on 17 December 2022. Rory holds the Romanian rescue in his arms, excited for their first walk together – but the road ahead will be a long one . . . This book follows the real journey of Sophie’s adoption – from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first time outside – as Rory and Diane work with expert dog trainer Si to win Sophie’s trust, and navigate Rory’s Parkinson’s disease.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Digital, 2025
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
ISBN:
9781529934113
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English
BRN:
1689509
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