The Girl with the Dogs
  • Published: 16 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780143573500
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $12.99

The Girl with the Dogs

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The Girl with the Dogs is a poignantly beautiful novella about what's really precious in life, from Miles Franklin Award-winning Anna Funder, author of All That I Am.

'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.'

Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed. But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she decided against in her youth. What could she have made of her life had she chosen differently? And what will she risk to find out?

Deceptively concise, The Girl with the Dogs is a masterful story about life from beginning to end, and about the brief moments of choice that have enduring consequences.
  • Published: 16 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780143573500
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $12.99
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About the author

Anna Funder

Anna Funder is the author of Stasiland, All That I Am and Wifedom – each book an international bestseller, published in many countries – and the novella The Girl with the Dogs. Her books have won multiple literary awards, including the UK’s premier award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson Prize, for Stasiland; Australia’s most prestigious, the Miles Franklin, for her novel All That I Am; and the renowned French prize the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, for Wifedom.

Originally trained as an international human rights lawyer, Anna has lived in Melbourne, Paris, Berlin and New York City. She now lives with her family in Sydney.

annafunder.com

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Praise for The Girl with the Dogs

[Anna Funder] has never written better: every sentence is crisp and glowing, with a world of emotion floating just out of reach.

The Saturday Paper