{"product_id":"9780857500632","title":"Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier by Terry Darlington","description":"At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing, including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking dull and short on surprises.\u003cp\u003eThen their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2 – to Liverpool, Lancaster, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey, and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his dog Jim, with his broken ear like a flat cap, and Monica’s dog Jess, known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny, affecting and beautifully told, this is a story that brims with incident and excitement, and is full of the famous and fascinating people the Darlingtons have met - a story of an adventurous life well lived.\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 368 pages, Line drawings\/map","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47718689013987,"sku":"9780857500632","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780857500632.jpg?v=1765273883","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780857500632","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}