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Jump to navigationJump to searchMelissa Wareham Talks To Bookbag About How She Became An Accidental Author (view source)
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After spending a fortune on my education, my parents were horrified when I announced my career plans. University wasn’t for me; instead I went to the dogs - Battersea Dogs Home to be exact, to look after London’s waifs and strays. I loved it so much I stayed for 15 years!
When I left Battersea I moved to Sydney Australia where I put pen to paper, jotting down some favourite memories of my time at Britain’s best-loved dogs' home. Those memories became ''[http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0091930162?tag=thebookbag-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0091930162&adid=1SAF3N1S42GQ1T5JAHPR&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebookbag.co.uk%2Freviews%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DBooks_for_Review Rescue Me – My Life With the Battersea Dogs'' ] (Ebury Press), which reached number 4 in the Sunday Times bestseller list. Rescue Me was serialised in the Mail on Sunday and made into an audio book, read by me (with a cold and a bunged up nose!).
After the success of Rescue Me, Random House Children’s Books asked me to write a kid’s version, and [[Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs by Melissa Wareham|Take Me Home – Tales of Battersea Dogs]] was born. It featured in the Tesco’s Book Club.
