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.

[A] deservedly award-studded delight  Strong Words Magazine

‘A smart, scathing and bleakly funny cross of folk horror, satire and historical fiction’  Toronto Star 

‘Reads like a modern fairy tale’ New York Journal of Books

 

'Eerie and sensual' The Guardian

'So original, so beautifully done, and sinister and savage. I didn’t want it to end' Chris Whitaker

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: Gallic Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781910477861
• | ISBN-10: 1910477869