Tamed

by Alice Roberts

  Thank you also to my most excellent editor at Hutchinson, Sarah Rigby, and to my fantastically attentive copyeditor Sarah-Jane Forder. I am always grateful for the enormous support and encouragement of my literary editor, Luigi Bonomi, and to the whole, brilliant team at Jo Sarsby Management, who will be helping me take this book on tour.

  And thank you, Dave. I know you think this was all your idea, but it really wasn’t. OK – maybe just a little bit.

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  Dogs

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