When Sophia brings home Dennis – a scruffy Parson terrier with big eyes and even bigger opinions – she’s armed with Pinterest-perfect visions of puppy bliss. But after a sudden break up, she finds herself solo-parenting a creature who snacks on foam earplugs and shreds slippers for fun. And yet, amid the chaos, Dennis becomes an unlikely source of comfort through a turbulent year. In this candid and laugh-out-loud memoir, between bad Hinge dates and scraping poo off the carpet, Sophia reflects on the oddities of modern life: the awkwardness of being single in a coupled-up world, the pressure to curate perfection online, the strange parallels between raising dogs and babies, and the realisation that building a life isn’t always linear – but it can still be whole. By the end of their first year together, Dennis has done more than turn Sophia’s world upside down – he’s remade it in his image: wilder, messier and infinitely more alive. Told with warmth, wit and total honesty, this is Sophia’s true story of heartbreak, healing – and one unforgettable pup.

Sophia Money-Coutts is a journalist and author who spent five years working as Features Director at Tatler. Prior to that she worked as a writer and an editor for the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail in London, and The National in Abu Dhabi. She writes the Modern Manners column for The Sunday Telegraph.

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