A Dog's Life, 9781848665248
Paperback
Eccentric family faces tragedy when their dog’s life hangs in balance.

A Dog's Life

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    7 September 2015

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Summary

Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs.

It’s not Henry’s fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has made up for it and is now a faster motorist than ever he was bowler. He is a good father too and one day, when he wakes up from day-dreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him.

It is…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781848665248
ISBN-10:1848665245
Author:Michael Holroyd
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:7 September 2015
Weight:168g
Dimensions:198mm x 133mm x 16mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Full of languorous charm and mischievous humour

Michael Holroyd has a great novelist’s sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person - The New Yorker

Full of languorous charm and mischievous humour - TLS

Michael Holroyd has a great novelist’s sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person - The New Yorker

A brilliant writer blessed with prefect pitch - Mail on Sunday

About The Author

Michael Holroyd

Michael Holroyd was born in 1935, and educated at Eton and the Maidenhead Public Library. His biographies of Hugh Kingsmill, Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw have established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. He was awarded the CBE in 1989 and was knighted in 2007. He is married to novelist Margaret Drabble and lives in London and Somerset.

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