The Dolphin Who Saved Me

The Dolphin Who Saved Me

By Melody Horrill

Genre:-Memoir/Biography

Pages:-296

Publisher:-Greystone Books

Blurb:-With the heartwrenching vulnerability of The Glass Castle and the spiritual journey of H is for Hawk, this stunning debut memoir tells the story of a traumatized young woman's friendship with an injured dolphin whose habitat she fights to save.

 When Melody Horrill arrived at university she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully crafted experienced a childhood of emotional and physical trauma mainly at the hands of her violent father that was as damaging as it was brutal.

One day Melody volunteered to help her lecturer monitor pods of river dolphins nearby. There for the first time she encountered Jock, a solitary dolphin with a maimed fin, who lived apart from the highly social pods. Melody was to form a bond with Jock that gave her the key to freeing herself from the demons of her own past, and their extraordinary friendship was the start of a long term mission to try to save the river dolphins.

 Beautifully written and filled with insight and compassion, Melody's memoir details her life-changing friendship with the river dolphins, and how Jock helped her to heal

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My Review:-This is a true story, told by Melody Horrill. Melody Horrill grow Upon a violent and traumatic childhood. Melody’s father was a brutal, violent man, that took t out on her mother. When Melody went to university she was at her lowest she had ever been. Melody volunteered to help her tutor to monitor a pod of river dolphins in Pot River Adelaide. Jock one of the dolphin’s wasn’t as sociable as the others in his pod, he was a solitary dolphin, he had a damaged fin. It wasn’t long before Jock and Melody made a connection, this is where the story really begins. With the help from Jock, Melody soon started to face her demons and what had gone on in her childhood, facing her emotions. The bond that was made between Melody and Jock shows how much animals feel and help humans. I found this a beautiful story, how you can be at your lowest and still come through it, with the help from a friend.