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The Dogs of Littlefield

Suzanne Berne

From Shelf: The 2014 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

Littlefield, Massachusetts: home to psychologists, college professors and their over-achieving children, and recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America. If happiness had a home it would be here. Then the first dog is poisoned. At first, there is shock and disbelief: who would commit such a cruel act - and why?

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Littlefield, Massachusetts: home to psychologists, college professors and their over-achieving children, and recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America. If happiness had a home it would be here.Then the first dog is poisoned. At first, there is shock and disbelief: who would commit such a cruel act - and why? As more dogs die, residents notice other signs that something's not right in their home: the appearance of menacing grafitti, the persistent triggering of fire alarms at the middle school and the haunted looks neighbours begin exchanging.For the Downings, Margaret, Bill and daughter Julia, Littlefield's gathering darkness hints at flaws in their own lives. What is wrong? What can save them?'Well-observed shrewd satire . . . sharp, funny and painful. Berne takes the domestic and turns it into the majestic' Sunday Telegraph

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
288
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780241962664
Published Date:
7/8/2014
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight:
200g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £15.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780241962664


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