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Nigel
- My Family and Other Dogs
- Narrated by: Monty Don
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
When Monty Don's golden retriever, Nigel, became the surprise star of BBC's Gardeners' World, inspiring huge interest, fan mail and even his own social media accounts, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so deeply.
In many respects Nigel is a very ordinary dog - charming, handsome and obedient, as so many are. He is also a much loved family pet. He is also a star. By telling Nigel's story, Monty relates his relationships with other special dogs in his life in a memoir of his dogs past and very much present.
Witty, touching and life affirming, Nigel: My Family and Other Dogs is wonderfully heartwarming. Monty Don is a great writer coming out of the garden and into the hearts and homes of every dog lover in the UK.
'I have always had a dog or dogs. I cannot imagine life without them. I am just as much a fan of Nigel as any besotted viewer. In the book I explore why we love dogs and what they mean to us emotionally and domestically. I look back on all the dogs in my life - all of which I have loved deeply and which have been an essential part of my life. So, this is the book of Nigel - but also the book of all our dogs in every British family and a celebration of the deep love we feel for them.' (Monty Don)
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- Debjoelliott
- 06-02-19
Really enjoyable story
Only Monty could read HIS book about Nigel and his other dogs. He has a very easy on the ears voice and in the emotional moments in the book Monty is clearly close to tears remembering them, and that brought tears to my eyes! At the end of the book I was really quite sad, like a good friend had left after a long visit! Anyway, I highly recommend it.
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- Tony Swinton
- 28-09-16
Excellent
If you love dogs and you don't need to be a keen gardener to enjoy this book
It's full of interesting stories of the dogs in the authors life some very funny and others sad on his feelings when a dog died
This is one book I will listen to again a beautiful flower in the long grass
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- Gemma moore
- 20-11-16
an absolutely brilliant book
being a golden retriever owner I found myself laughing along to monty describing the antics of his golden.
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- Caroline Boundy
- 23-09-16
Joy
Anyone who has ever owned dogs will love this book and it will strike a cord with the great joy they bring and deep sorry when their time come. Brilliant
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- mullen1
- 28-01-21
Utterly addictive!
I honestly didn't know what to expect from this book, nor really remember why I purchased it (as much as I love Nigel!) as I knew it wasn't going to be a gardening book. But from the moment I pressed play I just couldn't stop until it was finished. The tale of each individual dog draws you in completely, untill it reaches its inevitable conclusion. Monty's soothing drowl also makes it incredibly easy to listen to. I was sad when it ended. A charming book.
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- Bootie Boot
- 25-08-17
Don't listen if you've recently lost a pet: it's quite sad
This is a charming book on many levels; a peon to the adorable Nigel, the golden retriever who stars on Gardeners World. Beautifully written and read by Monty Don, it describes Nigel's life to date, how the garden at Longmeadow has evolved in his life time (and earlier), and tells the stories of many of the other dogs that Monty has owned from boyhood. The writing is wonderfully fluent even if Monty uses a lot of cliches, and he describes the landscape with vivid clarity. I found it to be rather tragic however; given that Monty is pushing his sixth decade, he's owned a lot of dogs, particularly the large dogs who rarely live beyond 12 years. To my dismay he describes their ageing years and deaths in a lot of detail and his grief at their passing. I found this unbearably sad, and wish this part of the book had been reduced. I wouldn't re-listen due to this and I'm surprised at reviewers who said they listened to the book with their children (whom I expected to be traumatised!). But perhaps I'm too sensitive.
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- try to be fair
- 18-07-20
Good in parts
Some of this book is wonderful as montys love of dogs shines through, but his advice to take dogs food away repeatedly while they are eating is outdated and wrong, and I take issue with the part of his gushing hero worship of Noel fitzpatrick where he asserts that vet training is cold and clinical, and implies that other vets don’t care as much for animals compared to Fitzpatrick, and that Fitzpatrick is unusual in working long hours and eating a late lunch, which he is not. At this point I turned the book off. Saddened that he felt the need to dismiss the effort, care and emotional investment of a profession which has a suicide rate of around 4 times that iof the general population. I won’t be reading any more of his books and gardeners world is now tainted for me. Very disappointed and sad
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- james
- 07-12-18
Fantastic story by a fascinating man.
I've now listened to this twice in the last year or so. It's one of the best books by one of the best storyteller.
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- Wendy Potter
- 03-01-24
Monty and his dogs
A wonderful story that weaves the story of a man’s dogs into his home, garden and life with his family
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-11-23
brilliant
loved it and monty don reads it so well. so good to get a snap shot of his dogs
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