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Dr Louise Powell: Track to my roots

Dr Louise Powell, author of Underdogs, shares further dogs’ life memories and looks back on her roots in the sport.

COUNTY Durham writer Dr Louise Powell has enjoyed a lifelong love of greyhound racing.
She recalls her working class background in the Teessideworld of the flapper tracks in a traditional mining area for her much acclaimed first novel, Underdogs.
Written entirely in the language of her childhood, the East Durham dialect, the book is a gripping tale underpinned by Dr Powell’s intimate knowledge of the sport she grew up with, her experiences as a greyhound trainer in the area, ...

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