Please...don't buy this book. Save your money. I read this book because I am a dog lover. I thought there might be something sympathetic in the story, but there is nothing. This is an awful book...all about a woman who is manically depressed, but no one recognizes it. I can't begin to comprehend why the Today Show would recommend this book as a highlight of its book club. The author must have a very powerful agent. I highly respect Little Brown as a publisher, but I can't imagine why they wasted paper for this story.