Terry Darlington - Narrow Dog To Carcassonne

Terry Darlington was brought up in Pembroke Dock duringthe war, between a Sunderland flying boat base and an oilterminal.

He survived and moved to Staffordshire, where he foundedResearch Associates, the international market research firm, andStone Master Marathoners, the running club.

Like many Welshmen he is talkative and confiding, ill at easewith practical matters and liable to linger in public houses.

He likes boating but knows nothing about it.

Monica Darlington comes from Radnorshire. Her father wasa gardener and her mother a housemaid, or perhaps it was theother way round.

She has a first class degree in French, has run thirty marathons,and can leap tall buildings with a single bound.

Her three children have all reproduced themselves, removingdoubts about whether she and Terry are the same species.

She quite likes boating but knows nothing about it.

Brynula Great Expectations (Jim) is sprung from a long line ofdogs with ridiculous names.

Jim can run at forty miles an hour. He is cowardly, thieving,and disrespectful and hates boating.

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I read Narrow Dog pretty well at one sitting. Thank you
for a lovely book'
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'This laugh-aloud narrowboat adventure'
Val Hennessy

'Sparkling with comic and poetic insights to a France you
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'It's more than a memoir, it can be treated as a quotations
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'Their personal motto could be "brave but
never foolhardy"'
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'I thought they were mad to be honest'
Karen Wyatt, Canal Cruising Stone

'Of course, the real hero is Jim'
The Whippet

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NARROW DOG TO CARCASSONNE
A BANTAM BOOK

ISBN: 9781409084969

Version 1.0

Originally published in Great Britain by Bantam Press,
a division of Transworld Publishers

PRINTING HISTORY
Bantam Press edition published 2005
Bantam edition published 2006

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Copyright Terry Darlington 2005, 2006
Map on inside covers and illustrations by Christopher Corr

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To Monica
with love

I am I: thou art she: Jim is him.
T. D.