Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog: 'Will make you laugh, cry and stroke your dog (or any dog)' ―Sarah Millican

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I loved this book so much. It's hard to overpraise. So funny and so sad and so hopeful -- Neil Gaiman Emily’s father, Michael, was a hugely famous pioneer of arts television, working with Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up and making documentaries —always masking his semi-detached selfishness with pretentious quotations. Her mother, Christine Collins, an actress, seemed to be a rather sad figure whose career (such as it was) had been derailed by the arrival of two children. The following year, her mother landed a small acting role in Australia and left the sisters with two different families; their cat Treacle was rehomed. Their father’s many infidelities now out in the open, the girls had to tolerate — on a rare visit — his praise of his new girlfriend’s children. Emily’s judgment on his behaviour is all the more devastating for being lightly expressed. As you read, you admire her more and more.

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Helen Flanagan's daughterMatilda, seven, hilariously lets slip her mum is dating again - one year after she split from ex Scott Sinclair While our mutual obsession with dogs will be a theme throughout, we’re also here to talk about Emily’s book, Everybody Died, So I Got A Dog.Sophia Bush recalls TERRIFYING paranormal experience while living with Austin Nichols in 'creepy haunted apartment': 'We both started to scream!' Life is sweets! Jamie Laing says building his Candy Kittens brand has brought his boyhood dreams to life - and that making them 100 per cent vegan was a 'no-brainer' The tiny dog that healed a heart full of grief: Radio presenter Emily Dean reveals how a canine companion helped her through grief

Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog a book by Emily Dean. Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog a book by Emily Dean.

Emily Dean is a radio presenter, podcaster and journalist. She is Frank Skinner’s co-host on the award-winning Frank Skinner Show (Absolute Radio) and currently presents a hugely successful podcast for The Times called Walking the Dog. She spent eight years as Deputy Editor of InStyle magazine and has written for titles such as The Times, The Evening Standard and Youmagazine. She lives in London, supports Arsenal and her career highlight was when Mark Gatisscalled her 'sci-fi royalty' due to her childhood role in BBC cult series The Day of the Triffids. It was tough and I felt very lonely,” she continues. “I also felt with my sister, that she was my witness, and my witness had died. There are things about my childhood that no one else would understand.” John Stamos pays tribute to Matthew Perry as he reminisces over sweet gesture on Friends set 20 years ago: 'I never forgot that'Age-defying Elle MacPherson, 59, confirms she gets fillers and Botox as the supermodel gushes about Australian facial injector to the stars

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Kim and Khloe Kardashian dress up in plaid mini skirts as Bratz dolls for Halloween... after Kylie Jenner collaborated with the toy brand Emily’s whole world turned completely on its head in December 2011. Rachael suddenly became very ill, and passed away less than a month later from an aggressive form of cancer. In 2014, her mother was diagnosed with MND, passing away a year later, shortly followed by the death of her father a few months later. Within three short years she was completely on her own. “There’s something about the family you have grown up, in whatever form that takes, that defines you. It is who you are. “ I had moments where I would go to ring my sister, with something funny, or if I had passed somewhere. And then you’d get this sinking feeling of I’ve got no one to tell, no one understands this”