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I have begun The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks as well as Tinkling the English by Dara O'Briain

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No Place like Home by Pen Farthing (5/5) Please forgive me going out of order with reviews here but I wanted to get this one up while the story was fresh in my mind (not that I am ever going to forget it). Ok, so I was watching This Morning Last Week, and Pen Farthing was on it. I hadn’t heard of him till then but he has fast become one of my absolute hero’s, and this guy is a hero in the true sense of the word. A Former Royal Marine, this heart warming book picks up where his first I think will leave off (I’ve not read One Dog at a Time yet, it is on its way in the post! I was too eager to read this to wait for it). When in Afghanistan, as well as being disturbed about the human suffering, which he could do nothing about, he was also upset by the plight of the animals, too often the forgotten victims of any war and was determined he was going to do something about it. When he came across a dog fight (sadly one of their nations sports), he could not let it continue and broke it up. When one of the two dogs adopted him, a ball was set rolling that changed his life forever and by the time he was due to go home he had looked after five adult dogs and fourteen pups. Though not all of them were destined to make it to safety, when he got home he made sure the two remaining adults (Nowzad, the original fighting dog, and Tali) at the afghan rescue centre (two didn’t make it there safely and another had already been adopted) were given a good home; with him. No Place like Home tells the story of how Farthing and his wife Lisa try to get the dogs to adapt to life in the UK. Never house trained and never having been on a walk before, it is quite clear from the start that they were always going to have trouble with their Afghan ‘nightmares’. Farthing seems to thrive on the challenge (which gets even bigger when Crufts comes calling!) and on the charity he set up to help other soldiers who find themselves in the position he was; simply unable to leave the best friend who got them through their tour behind. Though at times sad, when rescues go wrong or when Tali and Nowzad get confused, this is a heart warming and often humorous book (like when you figure out what FUBAR means, what one Dutch marine called his pup of war) that shows happy endings are only too often in fact new beginnings. Not only do the dogs and Pen’s good heart shine through, but his wife Lisa comes out as a wonderful and very funny women. She shares in his sorrows, laughs with as well as at him, and calls him a loser at training classes when she and Tali get it right and yet he and Nowzad most definitely don’t. In other words, she’s the sort of women you’d like to be mates with. I really enjoyed it and implore you all to get the book and give it a go. Some of the royalties go straight back into the charity and help Farthing continue the wonderful work he does. After reading the book, any animal lover will see just how worthwhile what he does is. Wonderful book, wonderful dogs and a wonderful author.

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Emmerdale