Dumfries and Galloway Life Magazine's 'Book of the Month' for April 2014 (Southwest Scotland) ..".an excellent read." National Kidney Federation's Kidney Life Magazine - Summer 2013 You don't remember your childhood in detail, so your memories thirty or forty years on have become hazy; times you had back then are painted in colours that have become distorted, and you find yourself recalling conversations you have created in your head. Through living in the false world of remembering, you can deal with the past in such a way that the things that happened, they appear to matter less. This is a love story. In the end, anyway, that's what it will be. A love story gives you hope: whatever you have lost; whatever you have to gain. For me, as someone on daily kidney dialysis, when an offer of a kidney came along which I couldn't possibly refuse, there was everything to gain. But the past has a way of interfering with what seems as though it is the right path... and how do you ever in this life repay a debt so huge? Clare Cogbill was born in the mid-1960s and has spent much of her adult life working with animals, and as a lecturer. In this book, from personal experience, she explores the issues of organ donation, generosity, grief. and the human-animal bond. It is a story that readers will find thought-provoking and captivating. This book is an autobiography of love, loss, grief and what can happen when you dare to hope. By the author of 'A Dog Like Ralph'

This is the humorous, sometimes sad, and eventually uplifting story of Ralph and the friends he has met along the way. He is a rescue dog with a difficult past who loves other dogs, is frightened of people and cars and mesmerized by cats and rabbits. It is partly told through his eyes and describes how what he has experienced before has affected how he interacts with those around him. Entwined with his story, Clare, his new owner and the author of this book, who has a total of over 30 years experience of working with animals and teaching veterinary nursing and animal care and welfare, tells of the joys of having him as a companion and how, through gentle nurturing and the arrival of his compatriots, Peggy and Luella, his whole outlook on life has changed. She also writes with a great deal of passion about the pitfalls of a society that has resulted in Ralph being the way he is, and of some of the other issues that are contributing to the problems faced by dogs today.