# Sun Dog

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- Book: [Sun Dog](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey/sun-dog) ([Sun Dog.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey/sun-dog.md))
- Authors: [Monique Roffey](https://www.bookquiver.com/monique-roffey)
- Publisher: Scribner
- ISBN: 978-13-9851-410-2
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2022-01-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...