Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier Audiobook (Free)

At seventy-five, Terry and Monica Darlington had completed everything they could think of doing, including starting a company and becoming sportsmen and owning a literary society.Lately that they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer.

But in their Midlands canal town in November, life was looking boring and short about surprises.

Then their famous canal motorboat was destroyed simply by fire. Within a few days that they had bought a fresh one and shortly headed north in the Phyllis Might 2 – to Liverpool, Lancaster, the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey, and alongside it the storyplot of his life and his marriage and his doggie Jim, with his damaged ear such as a flat cap, and Monica’s pet dog Jess, known with heartbreaking reason as the Traveling Catastrophe.

Funny, affecting and beautifully told, this is a story that brims with incident and excitement, and it is filled with the famous and interesting people the Darlingtons possess met. And there is certainly sadness too of course – it is the true story of the adventurous lifestyle well lived.