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The Dog Nobody Wanted: A heartwarming and uplifting story of second chances
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Arthur Hale has not said a true word to anyone since his wife died. He walks at six in the morning so he will meet nobody. He makes toast for one and eats half of it. And on the kitchen table, exactly where she left them, sit a pair of reading glasses he will not move.
Bram has been given back three times. He is frightened of hats, of hands, of doors going. He lies in the corner of kennel nine with his eyes open, and he has stopped asking anyone for anything. His file says not suitable for rehoming. The date at the bottom says he has a week.
When a shelter worker with no patience for either of their nonsense tricks Arthur into fostering just for a fortnight, neither of them wants it. But Arthur is a stonemason, and a stonemason will follow a method. So he pins the rules inside the pantry door. Same walk. Same times. Never reach. Let him choose the distance.
And in a small Yorkshire town, over one long year, a man who has stopped wanting anything and a dog who has stopped hoping for it begin, very slowly, to bring each other back.
Then one afternoon at the village fete a balloon bursts, a stranger grabs a frightened animal by the throat, and everything they have built is put in front of a hearing.
The town will have to decide what it has been watching over the garden gate all year. A dangerous dog. Or the only thing that fetched a good man home.
A heartwarming, wise and quietly funny novel about grief, second chances, and the fact that some rescues work both ways.
For readers of A Man Called Ove, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and A Dog's Purpose.
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