Can I draw your attention to a wonderful charity called The Cinnamon Trust? They recognise the special bond between owner and pet, and how precious that companionship can be in later years. Their national team of volunteers supports elderly owners by arranging walks if the owner becomes housebound, temporary fostering during hospital stays, and other practical forms of assistance to help keep old friends together. I think that’s kindness in action.
So if you love dogs (or cats or parakeets!) but can’t have your own, why not spend a little quality time with someone else’s? Volunteers are welcome all over the country – contact www.cinnamon.org.uk
About the Author
Lucy Dillon grew up in Cumbria and read English at Cambridge, then read a lot of magazines as a press assistant in London, then read other people’s manuscripts as a junior fiction editor. She now lives in a village outside Hereford with an old red Land Rover and too many books.
Lucy won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Contemporary Romantic Novel prize in 2015 for A Hundred Pieces of Me , and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2010 for Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts .
Also by Lucy Dillon
All I Ever Wanted
One Small Act of Kindness
A Hundred Pieces of Me
The Secret of Happy Ever After
Walking Back to Happiness
Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
The Ballroom Class
For more information on Lucy Dillon and her books, please visit her website at www.lucydillon.co.uk , her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/LucyDillonBooks or follow her on Twitter @lucy_dillon or Instagram @lucydillonbooks
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