In the summer of 1998, after her husband and father both died of cancer within the space of two weeks, Judith Summers found herself floundering in despair. Life for her and her eight-year-old son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak and onerous.

But then George bounced into their lives. A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a loving character, film-star looks and a penchant for chewing up paper, George re-awoke their joie de vivre and gave them back their sense of humour.

Yet, as Judith soon discovered, living with a George had its drawbacks. Wilful, stubborn and badly-behaved, he preferred travelling by car to walking, and became as jealous as a spurned lover if any man dared show an interest in her. Accident prone and dogged by health problems, George became an almost permanent fixture at the local vet's. And when a near-death tangle with a Staffordshire Bull Terrier resulted in costly sessions wtih an animal psychologist, Judith found to her horror that it was she who was put on the couch...

MY LIFE WITH GEORGE is the hilarious and moving account of the impossible but adorable George and of the wonderful way in which he helped to fill the huge void in Judith and Joshua's lives- whilst driving them absolutely barking mad along the way.