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Excerpt
Brown Eyes, Frances Ive
The
dog sees everything
People love their
pets, with dogs and cats holding a special position, but they love us too. Dogs
particularly have a special affection for humans and study their owners all the
time. They know our habits and funny ways, and they like to observe everything
we do, so they can tell when they will be fed or walked. They can also see
right into our lives and sense our moods, whether we are happy or sad, and they
don’t like raised voices.
In Brown Eyes,
Benji the Labrador was very attuned to his family – Meriel and Phil, the
adults, and Ricky and Elly the children. He adored them all and relished the
wonderful life he led, until one night everything started to go wrong.
Extract
from Brown Eyes, Frances Ive in the
words of Benji, the black Labrador:
Never have
I wished I could communicate as much as at that moment. Why didn’t she patch it
up with Phil so we could be a happy family all over again? What was it with
humans that they hurt each other so much instead of having a good fight and
biting each other’s legs and then getting on again? With dogs you knew where
you were.
I could see deep into her eyes as if I were
looking into her soul. I didn’t want her to think this was sympathy, but I
hoped she understood what I wanted to convey – that they loved each other, and
she was throwing away a chance of happiness, not just for herself but for
everyone, and me too.
‘You are
lovely,’ she said to me. ‘You’re the one who understands me.’
Unfortunately,
I didn’t – my life could never be as complicated as hers.
There used
to be so much love in this family. When I heard about other families that dogs
live with, there’s so much hurt people inflict on each other. I always felt so
smug and satisfied that I had the good fortune to be with people who never
behaved like that.
I could never have known how wrong everything
was going, and how the relationship between Meriel and Phil almost destroyed us
all.
Author Bio
– Frances Ive: A
career as a journalist/PR led to health writing for UK nationals newspapers and
consumer mags. Out of the blue I was inspired to write my first novel, Finding
Jo, which I self-published in January 2021. Brown Eyes is my 2nd
novel, written a few years ago. It was inspired by our black Labrador Benji.
Before Finding Jo, I previously had only
non-fiction books published, including One Step Ahead of Osteoarthritis (2019),
a positive approach to staying mobile.
Social
Media Links –
Twitter: @healthysouluk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FindingJoFrancesIve and
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fivewrite/. Website for
books: www.fivewrite.co.uk
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