Sun Dog introduces a writer of tremendous originality and maturity, with a warm and startling gift for revealing the magic in the everyday. August is a large, awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, hiding his unnatural body away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day he finds a rash on his arm that looks like frost. Later, something like snow begins to fall about his head. Is it some rare disease that has triggered this strange reaction, or the reappearance of his mother's old lover, Cosmo? Could it even be an allergy to the deli's new orange cheese that mocks his own colouring? As Cosmo's continuing presence taunts him with questions about his birth and upbringing, August's body begins to change with the seasons. But the most remarkable thing is that, for the first time, he feels marvellous. Through a year's wonderful metamorphosis - through snowstorm, heat wave and eclipse - August changes into himself.
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August is a large, awkward recluse with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes who hides his unnatural body away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. And when his mother's old lover reappears to taunt him, August finds his body changing with the seasons and through a year's wonderful metamorphism August changes into himself. A debut novel that is both startlingly original yet warmly accessible.
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Monique Roffey is a graduate of the Lancaster Writing School and was once a journalist for the Independent. She was born in Trinidad, and now lives in North London.
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A Wonderful Tale,
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I absolutely loved this book! It is almost a modern fairy tale and tells the story August, a man who's body is starting to change sending him on a voyage of self-discovery. Along the way we learn about Henry and Rose who work with August, his mother Olivia, the delightfully barmy and poetic Cedric and Cosmo a figure from August's past who has come back to haunt him. The tale is beautifully told, drawing the reader further and further in until this book becomes unputdownable!
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