JO COTTERILL has been shortlisted for a romantic novelists’ award for her book inspired by her visit to the Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary. It’s rather fitting, as anyone who has seen the workers at the sanctuary and the care and love they have for all manner of animals that cross their threshold can testify.
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