Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Memoirs

LOST DOG

Kate Spicer

A Love Story

A universal love story about one woman and her dog

Kate is a middle aged woman trying to steer some order into a life that is going off the rails. When she adopts a lurcher called Wolfy the shabby rescue dog saves her. When the dog disappears, it us up to Kate to hit the streets of London. Will she save him or will she lose her mind?

The human, Kate Spicer, is a freelance writer who is struggling to contain her appetite for drugs and drink. After the dog arrives she slowly sheds some of these wonky traits as she falls unexpectedly in love with the scruffy beast. The animal fills the cliched void. It's a happy time.

When the dog runs away. Spicer must make an ordinary extraordinary journey into London's underbelly to find her beloved Wolfy. As she trudges endlessly calling his name in the hopeless hope she may find him, she runs into other people's landscapes and lives. Trying to find her dog tests her relationship and her sanity to its limits. This tale has glamour, sleaze, highs and lows. Lost Dog is the most rock n roll book you will ever read about losing a dog.

Lost Dog is an easy, tender and lightly eccentric read that tries to make sense of the love between both human and canine, and, human and human.

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Book Published 2019-04-04 by Ebury
Book Published 2019-04-04 by Ebury

Comments

Brutally honest, heartbreaking & uplifting. Anyone who's ever loved an animal should read this. And anyone who hasn't should read it to see what they're missing.

"We might as well cut to the chase: there is no point in pretending I didn't love this book from the first page." "I picked it up, couldn't put it down." India Knight Sunday Times culture section "Lost Dog is already one of my books of the year. Spicer writes like a dream, and her unblinking appraisal of her world and of her place in it feels like an act of generosity towards the reader. You will love it. Buy tissues." India Knight Sunday Times "A stunning piece of work about a particular kind of London Life." India Knight on twitter

This book is proof you can teach an old dog new tricks.

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Unflinchingly honest, funny, brave and brilliant.

It's grown-up, intelligent and marbled throughout with a wit that is, appropriately, dry as a bone.

Kate Spicer made me care about a f***ing dog. I don't know who I am anymore.

Part love letter, part tribute to the power of never giving up hope, Lost Dog is not simply for those who like dogs. It's a mature piece of writing that never falters.... It hits you right in the heart.

You do not need to be a 'dog person' to be swept along by Kate Spicer's candid, funny, heart-wrenching story of finding and falling for Wolfy, a rescue lurcher, only to lose him again when he disappears. The love of a dog and the kindness of strangers shine like a light throughout.

I lost a whole weekend absorbed in Lost Dog (Ebury, £16.99) by Kate Spicer. If, like me, you are not an "animal person", don't let the title put you off. This is a beautifully written story about relationships, family and London.