Sophie From Romania - A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog

''A DAILY DOSE OF HOPE'' Jojo Moyes How do you welcome someone new into your home and heart? A week before Christmas 2022, former BBC journalist and award-nominated podcaster Rory Cellan-Jones received a special delivery that changed 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. Newly retired, Rory had become inseparable from her during daily pandemic walks which alleviated his Parkinson''s Disease symptoms. After a grief-stricken year, Rory and his wife Diane contemplated opening up their hearts again and came across a dog listing for ''a kind girl who loves everybody and is just looking for her forever home''. Bright-eyed, big-eared and trembling, Sophie''s van arrives in London from Central Europe on 17 th December. Rory holds the Romanian rescue in his arms, excited for their first walk together - unaware it is more than a year ahead. Sophie from Romania follows the journey of her adoption - from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first foray outside - as Roryand Diane work with expert dog trainer Si to win Sophie''s trust, and navigate Rory''s Parkinson''s diagnosis. This is a moving story of growing together through love, kindness and a lot of patience, revealing how adopting pets can be challenging but also full of rewarding moments. It''s also a celebration of rescue dogs, and communit,y as Rory uplifts fellow Romanian dog owners and his new friends from the #SophieFromRomania hashtag.

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Rory Cellan-Jones

Product details

• Authors: Rory Cellan-Jones, Cellan-Jones Rory
• Publisher: Square Peg
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9781529918588
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-1858-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies, PETS / Dogs / General, Memoirs, PETS / Essays & Narratives, animal-assisted therapy, Dogs as pets, Autobiography: writers, Animal life stories, c 2020 to c 2029, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Nature Therapy, Relating to people with degenerative conditions