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==Autobiography==
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|author=Anna Quindlen
|title=Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
|rating=5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I first encountered Anna Quindlen when I read [[Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family by Anna Quindlen|Life with Beau: A Tale of a Dog and His Family]]. I'm a sucker for non-fiction books about dogs but what struck me was that the book could have been trite. Instead it was elegant, witty and with a real eye for detail and social nuance. It was genuinely about life ''with'' Beau and what the family learned from him rather than - as so many such books are - what the family had done for the dog. The book struck a particular chord with me as our older dog was, we knew, on borrowed time (although her innate stubbornness kept her going for another two years) and Quindlen helped me to think about what Rosie had given us.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009955903X</amazonuk>
}}
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