Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 242247Title: Narrow Dog to Wigan PierAuthor: Terry DarlingtonNarrator: Steve HodsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 09:27:02Language: EnglishRelease date: 12-13-12Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Essays & TraveloguesSummary:At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer.But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2 to Liverpool, Lancaster, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey, and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his dog Jim, with his broken ear like a flat cap, and Monicas dog Jess, known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe.Funny, affecting and beautifully told, this is a story that brims with incident and excitement, and is full of the famous and fascinating people the Darlingtons have met. And there is sadness too of course it is the true story of an adventurous life well lived.Contact: [email protected]

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