My Haunting Hounds paints a vivid picture of the author's childhood, and how it is that she prefers the company of animals to humans, in particular dogs, from her first encounter with an Irish Wolfhound, to eventually becoming guardian to one of these magnificent animals. Abused by her father, he tells her not to talk to anyone about what has happened so, with the logic of a child, she will only speak to animals. In places laugh-out-loud funny, and in others heart-renderingly sad, but always compelling.