● Nicky’s book ‘One of the Family — Why A Dog Called Maxwell Changed My Life’ is out now, published by Hodder & Stoughton (hardback, £20), and available from all good book shops and online. Check out our review on page 47.
QIn your new book (see below) you credit your special Labrador, Maxwell, with helping you come to terms with being adopted and your feelings of abandonment. How has he done this?