Lost & Found

An unforgettable story of love, loss and a dog called Lloyd...

The best book I've read in a long time. I enjoyed every word

a contemporary tale of grief...Dog lovers will adore Sheehan's portrayal...

Jacqueline Sheehan, Ph.D., is a fiction writer and essayist. She is a New Englander through and through, but spent twenty years living in the western states of Oregon, California, and New Mexico doing a variety of things, including house painting, freelance photography, newspaper writing, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of high school puppeteers. 
 
She is currently the fiction editor for Patchwork Journal, an online journal sponsored by Patchwork Farm, an internationally based writing center. Jacqueline teaches workshops on writing and the combination of yoga and writing.

Roxanne Pellegrino's world collapses when her husband dies unexpectedly. The only way she feels she can deal with her all-consuming grief is to run away from her life. She leaves her home, her career and her friends, heading for Peaks Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine. A former psychologist, she finds herself taking a job as an animal warden and reinventing her past so it doesn't include the tragedy of her husband's death. 
 
But despite Roxanne's best efforts to cut herself off from her emotions and people in general, she finds herself drawn to her quirky new neighbours. And then Roxanne meets Lloyd. 
 
Lloyd is a stray dog, a large black Labrador retriever who clearly has been woefully mistreated. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded dog. And as both slowly begin to heal, Roxanne begins to deal with her grief and discover that happiness can be found in unexpected places...

Jacqueline Sheehan

a powerfully-told story ... Sheehan has a real talent for producing situations which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and characters you warm to. Lloyd simply stole my heart.

A gripping tale of obsession and personal struggle that's moving and heart-stopping in equal measure

I love the story so much ... it spoke to me

A contemporary tale of grief...Dog lovers will adore Sheehan's portrayal...

Happiness can be found in the most unexpected places... 
 
Roxanne Pellegrino's world collapses when her husband dies unexpectedly, and overwhelmed by her all-consuming grief, she runs away for a new start on Peaks Island. 
 
But her new life of solitude is interrupted when she meets Lloyd – a stray black Labrador with an equally unhappy past. As both slowly begin to heal, a remarkable friendship blossoms, and Roxanne will soon discover she’s not so alone after all... 
 
‘I love the story so much ... it spoke to me’ 
Katherine Heigl

Jacqueline Sheehan

Praise for A Dog Like Lloyd

a powerfully-told story ... Sheehan has a real talent for producing situations which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and characters you warm to. Lloyd simply stole my heart.

A gripping tale of obsession and personal struggle that's moving and heart-stopping in equal measure

I love the story so much ... it spoke to me

a powerfully-told story ... Sheehan has a real talent for producing situations which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and characters you warm to. Lloyd simply stole my heart.

A gripping tale of obsession and personal struggle that's moving and heart-stopping in equal measure

I love the story so much ... it spoke to me

a powerfully-told story ... Sheehan has a real talent for producing situations which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and characters you warm to. Lloyd simply stole my heart.

A gripping tale of obsession and personal struggle that's moving and heart-stopping in equal measure

I love the story so much ... it spoke to me

Books by Jacqueline Sheehan

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