Book description
Ollie was just about cured of his basketcase habits;: the neurotic
lurcher at last appeared to have his paws planted firmly on the ground
(well, almost). But did Stephen Foster take a well-earned rest? Not.
He decided one thing was missing from Ollie's life, someone who could
really understand him, a friend with whom he could have dog-to-dog
chats. If you must get another dog get a girl,” the experts told
Foster. So he got a boy, a pure-bred Saluki lunatic called Dylan. As
soon as the new puppy peered through the door, Ollie threw his master
a look of contemptuous disbelief that said, I refuse to have anything
whatsoever to do with this. You're on your own, pal.” The riotously
funny Along came Dylan takes up where Foster's bestselling Walking
Ollie left off, but instead of one canine conundrum, he's got two:
Dylan, the outlaw, proves to be virtually untrainable; Ollie, feeling
threatened, becomes increasingly antisocial, and Foster is caught in
the middle wondering why man's best friends can't just be friends.
Stephen Foster is the author of the short story collection, It Cracks
Like Breaking Skin, the novel Strides, about love and trousers and She
Stood There Laughing, his account of a season following Stoke City, one
of the bestselling sports books of 2004. Walking Ollie (Short 2007) has
sold more than 100,000 copies. He lives in Norwich with his partner and
his two dogs, Ollie and Dylan.