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 Shepherds Bush deli. One winters day two things change his life forever: his mothers 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 Augusts 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...