Do we ever really lose the animals we love? In this deeply personal reflection, I share the belief that inspired my God's Rope series: that love, memory and the bonds we share with animals never truly end, but continue long after they have gone.

A young husky pup had been found at the bottom of a rubbish bin - left to die in the sweltering summer heat. A passerby heard faint whimpering, and when the bin was tipped over, amid rotting food and debris, there he was. Barely 4.5 months old, broken-legged, dehydrated, and slipping away.

They called him Ghost because he tried to disappear. Because he’d learned that being seen meant suffering.

Something in me knew I had to meet him.