Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller

A house on a French hillside. Two couples: the wife of a doctor presumed killed on the battlefields of the First World War, and a mysterious German lion tamer hiding his circus animals from requisition; and Parisian Franck and his wife Lise, who has booked them into the isolated gite to escape twenty-first century life. When a hungry wolfdog emerges from the forest, Franck begins to discover dark secrets about the house, and himself.

WINNER OF THE PRIX LANDERNEAU DES LECTEURS 2018 

Described as ''eerie and sensual'' by The Guardian, Wild Dog tells the story of a young couple who discover dark secrets in the remote French countryside.

''Reads like a modern fairy tale'' New York Journal of Books  

Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life.

In this remote corner of the world, there is no phone signal. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild in these hills, where a German lion tamer took refuge in the First World War … Franck and Lise are confronted with nature at its most brutal. And they are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think. 

A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a dark, menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild.  

• | Author: Serge Joncour, Polly Mackintosh, Jane Aitken
• | Publisher: Pushkin Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781910477793
• | ISBN-10: 1910477796