Tracy Garton had run the Radcliffe Donkey Sanctuary for twenty years, creating a safe haven for more than sixty sick, unwanted & mistreated donkeys.

But after a devastatingly difficult winter, with sky high bills, she didnt know if she could afford to carry on
- or if she had the physical strength to keep going. Then, in the first week of January, the phone rang. A donkey had been abandoned 130 miles away.

Rushing to his rescue Tracy found Alan
- forlorn, balding & shivering
- tethered up tightly in a supermarket car park. Barely able to walk on his painfully overgrown hooves, he had been left to die.

Tracy ran her hands gently over Alans protruding ribs, & whispered in his ear: Dont worry boy, I wont give up on you.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781509866960
• Author: Tracy Garton
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 275
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2cm
















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