Sun Dog

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... August is a large, awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes. Through a year's wonderful metamorphosis - through snowstorms, heat wave and eclipse - August changes into himself A spellbinding novel which reveals the magic in the everyday from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of The White Woman on the Green Bicycle.