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A dolphin called Jock, Melody Horrill

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A dolphin called Jock

Melody Horrill

When Melody Horrill began communications at the University of South Australia, she was a troubled and lost young woman, hiding behind a carefully-crafted exterior. She had experienced a childhood of emotional and physical trauma mainly at the hands of a violent father, that was as damaging as it was brutal. One day, Melody volunteered to help her university lecturer monitor a pod of river dolphins that lived in the waters of Port Adelaide. 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 begin a long-term mission to try to save the river dolphins. In this book, she details her extraordinary friendship with a wild dolphin and the significant impact he and the other dolphins had on helping her heal

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