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Jill Baker is an award-winning journalist. She edited two newspapers (The Sunday Age and the Sunday Herald Sun) and was a group publisher at Australian Consolidated Press, running about 20 magazines including The Bulletin, Australian Gourmet Traveller, House & Garden and Belle. She won a Walkley award for feature writing in 2010, the Keith Murdoch award for journalism (News Limited's highest award) and the Melbourne Press Club's gold quill. She loves great words and how great writers tell stories. She's undoubtedly the only newspaper editor who can pull a calf if needed or get a red-bellied black snake out of the chook yard (if she absolutely has to!). At various times she has bankrolled a herd of cattle, two alpacas called Boomer and Sally, a slew of cats and more chooks than you can have roast dinners. She now lives with a mutt known on his bad days as Dirty Harry. Harry is her first dog.
Review * The Courier Mail * With humour, wit and no trace of indulgence, Baker captures the shock and sorrow of recovery, all aided by the most unlikely of heroes. * PRINT [NSW&ACT] Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age * A Dog Called Harry is the moving memoir of how this crazy, howling, snoring, digging, chewing, barking, orange pup helped her love life again. * The Senior * This memoir about how a tiny dog healed a very broken heart is a moving and truthful account of love and loss. * The Daily Telegraph, Adelaide Advertiser, Herald Sun, Courier Mail * This is a heart-lifting memoir about the power of love and pups and just what is we need to put a smile on our faces during this time of uncertainty and social distancing * PRINT [NATIONAL] New Idea AUDIENCE : 211,855 ASR: AUD 9,440 * Jill Baker came home one day to find her husband, George, dead on the bedroom floor. Then just weeks later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. At her lowest, she decided to get a cavoodle, whom she named Dirty Harry. Jill writes that: Harry tried to be the perfect dog, and every year or two he was, but some days I wondered how this dog had a hope in hell of saving my life when he couldn't get his own in order. This is an uplifting read about a bond between a woman and her dog. And it's a reminder of the human spirit's ability to survive in the most trying of times * NATIONAL [PRINT] Take 5 AUDIENCE : 135,061 ASR: AUD 24,541 *
