Sun Dog

'Full of sensuality... a delightfully unusual debut' The Times 'Enchanting. Roffey handles this modern-day metamorphosis beautifully' Daily Mail 'It's rare to read a novel with such a big heart' Guardian 'Beautifully written - an extraordinary first novel. Buy it, then tell all your friends to do the same' Heat 'A highly original and imaginative literary love story. Bewitching' Daily Express 'A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed' Daily Mirror 'Striking, original and razor sharp' Dazed & Confused 'A feast to the senses... Monique Roffey's rich imagination makes the ordinary feel exotic and the extraordinary seems as natural as the seasons. Her book sharpens the appetite for life' Lindsay Clarke, author of The Chymical Wedding 'Roffey's debut novel, written seven years before her Orange-prize shortlisted second, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, is remarkable not for its plot - which navigates her lovelorn central character, August's present-day reality in a Shepherd's Bush delicatessen with the ghosts of his past - but for the richness with which Roffey brings ordinary scenes to life. The real achievement of this debut is her evident relish and aptitude for words, with which she infuses a painterly three-dimensionality into characters and scenes. Structured around the seasons, it is a family drama and love story - flecked with magical realism and absorbing on all counts - but best read for the pleasure of sinking into Roffey's lusciously rendered everyday world' Independent