The Dog of the North
We still have reading copies available for The Dog of the North, now longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023! If you haven’t read it yet, and you’re a bookseller in the Open Markets, please do get in touch and we can send you a copy.
About the book
The darkly comic new novel from the bestselling author of The Portable Veblen.
Penny Rush has problems. Freshly divorced from her mobile knife-sharpener husband, she has returned home to Santa Barbara to deal with her grandfather, who is being moved into a retirement home by his cruel second wife. Her grandmother, meanwhile, has been found in possession of a sinister sounding weapon called ‘the scintilltor’ and something even worse in her woodshed. Penny’s parents have been missing in the Australian outback for many years now, and so Penny must deal with this spiralling family crisis alone.
Enter The Dog of The North. The Dog of the North is a borrowed van, replete with yellow gingham curtains, wood panelling, a futon, a pinata, clunky brakes and difficult steering. It is also Penny’s getaway car from a failed marriage, a family in crisis and an uncertain future. This darkly, dryly comic novel follows Penny as she sets out in The Dog to find a way through the curveballs life has thrown at her and in doing so, find a way back to herself.
Publishing 14 March 2023 | Trade Paperback | 9780008561420 | RRP £12.99
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