Harry a toujours rêvé d'avoir un chien. Encore plus depuis que ses parents sont séparés et qu'il a changé d'école. Un chien qui serait son ami. " Non ! " a dit sa mère pour la millième fois... avant de céder. Et Pétula a déboulé dans leur vie. Mais elle n'a rien à voir avec le chien de ses rêves.

Pétula, la petite chienne aux idées géantes

Qui a caché une saucisse sous le canapé ? Pétula ! Qui a volé ma chaussure ? Pétula ! Qui a bondi sur le facteur, arraché mon dessin ? Pétula ! J'ai conduit ma petite chienne à l'école de dressage pour lui apprendre les bonnes manières et, grâce à elle, j'ai de nouveaux amis.
Promets-moi, Pétula, que tu seras sage pour la première visite de papa...

Pétula, la petite chienne porte-bonheur

Papa m'a invité à Londres dans son nouvel appartement. Il a une nouvelle amie. Et comme je ne la connais pas encore, je préfère emmener Pétula. Mais maman a peur pour notre petite chienne dans la grande ville et peut-être aussi de rester toute seule. Puis elle a fini par dire oui ! Et nous voilà partis...

Pétula, la petite chienne dans la grande ville

A story of survival, transformation and love.

 In a beautiful and powerful memoir which mixes honest, personal revelation with literature, history, and inspirational self-help, Bel Mooney tells the story of her rescue dog, Bonnie, who in turn rescued Bel when her world fell apart with the all-too public break-up of her 35-year marriage. SMALL DOGS CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE really is a story of survival, and also one of love.

 This is an account of six years in Bel's life, from when she first acquired Bonnie from a rescue home, through Bel's years of personal heartbreak and disappointment, and on to the happiness which she has now found in a new marriage and a new life, with the Maltese at her side all the way. This is a book about transformation and change, about picking yourself up and attacking life in the way that a small dog will go for the postman's trousers - and about celebrating life, much as your canine companion will always celebrate your return, even from the shortest trip.

 Beautifully engaging, entertaining, full of personal anecdotes and deeply moving, SMALL DOGS CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE will take the reader on an inspirational walk with one very small but very remarkable dog - a dog who became a symbolfor all that is best about dogs, and about we humans too.

 Bel Mooney is a journalist with almost forty years' experience. Well-loved by millions for her advice columns, first for the Times and now in the Daily Mail, as well as countless programmes for radio and television, Bel takes the reader on a journey of discovery, in which she finds herself transformed into a dog-lover by one small and lively bundle of white fur, as well as telling her own gripping story.

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