Narrow Dog to Wigan Pier

At 75 Terry and Monica Darlington had done everything they could think of doing including starting a business and becoming athletes and running a literary society.Lately they had become boating adventurers and Terry a bestselling writer. But in their Midlands canal town in November life was looking short on surprises. Then their famous canal boat was destroyed by fire. Within a few days they had bought a new one and soon headed north in the Phyllis May 2 - to Liverpool Lancaster the Pennines and Wigan Pier. Terry recorded the journey and alongside it the story of his life and his marriage and his dog Jim with his broken ear like a flat cap and Monica’s dog Jess known with heartbreaking reason as the Flying Catastrophe.