Bill Bailey is a comedian, musician, actor, presenter, and Strictly Come Dancing champion. Having delighted live and TV audiences over the decades, Bill has written his first memoir in which he recounts stories of his life — and the animals he’s met along the way.
Here we share an extract from the book about his early life and a special Patterdale Terrier…
When I lived on a houseboat in the late 1980s, my then-girlfriend, Kris, came to stay – and brought her dog, Rocky. So I went from a bloke living on his own to three in a boat. Rocky was a Patterdale Terrier, rust coloured and wire-haired, with a black stripe down his back. Patterdales are described as ‘busy, clever, all-terrain, all-weather dogs, who are adept at digging and…
