Sun Dog

Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch , Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd''s Bush deli. One winter''s day two things change his life forever: his mother''s ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises questions about August''s identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...

Product details

• Authors: MONIQUE ROFFEY, Monique Roffey, Roffey Monique
• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781398514102
• ISBN: 978-1-398-51410-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary