An inspiring book about love in its purest form.—JANE GOODALL DBE Founder of the Jane Goodall
Institute & UN Messenger of Peace With the heartwrenching vulnerability of The Glass Castle and
the spiritual journey of H is for Hawk this stunning debut memoir tells the story of a
traumatized young woman's friendship with an injured dolphin whose habitat she fights to save.
When Melody Horrill arrived at university she was a troubled and lost young woman hiding
behind a carefully crafted exterior. She had experienced a childhood of emotional and physical
trauma mainly at the hands of her violent father that was as damaging as it was brutal. One day
Melody volunteered to help her lecturer monitor pods of river dolphins nearby. There for the
first time she encountered Jock a solitary dolphin with a maimed fin who lived apart from the
highly social pods. Melody was to form a bond with Jock that gave her the key to freeing
herself from the demons of her own past and their extraordinary friendship was the start of a
long-term mission to try to save the river dolphins. Beautifully written and filled with
insight and compassion Melody's memoir details her life-changing friendship with the river
dolphins and how Jock helped her to heal.
