The Dog of The North - Longlisted Women's Prize Fiction 2023

The Portable Veblen ''Even funnier, even more romantic than McKenzie''s wonderful last'' Karen Joy Fowler 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 breaks 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth McKenzie, McKenzie Elizabeth
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2023
• EAN: 9780008561420
• ISBN: 978-0-00-856142-0
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Satirical fiction & parodies, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction