A police constable drove an exhausted Weeks home then dropped Russell outside his railway carriage with a promise to pick him up in the morning. He unlocked the front door, put his bag inside, then set off across the dunes. Before long the sight of a wisp of smoke let him know he was nearing his destination. He whistled and in a moment a little bundle of tan and white fur burst through the marram grass, came tearing towards him and leapt into his arms.
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THE END
Chris O'Donoghue trained in industrial ceramics at Bournemouth Art College and worked at Poole Pottery and Cranbrook pottery in Kent before setting up on his own in Rye. He later specialised in model making and sculpture.
When much of the kind of work he did began to be made in the Far East, Chris, having always loved the outdoors, decided on a change of direction and started gardening. His design ability led him to create three medal-winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show.
A lifetime's passion for the sea, crime novels, the simple pleasures of the Fifties and railways - he is well known on the model railway scene - led him to combine all three in this, his first published book.
www.chrisodonoghue.co.uk
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