The Power of Dog: How a Puppy Helped Heal a Grieving Heart

A memoir about getting a first puppy, turning forty and transforming a son and mother's complicated relationship. On the eve of the millenium, the life of therapist and best-selling self-help author Andrew Marshall was in a dark place.

The counselling that he recommended to everybody else had not shifted the grief from the death of his much-loved partner - despite trying three different therapists.

His career as journalist had reached a dead end. He was struggling with low-level depression an...