Anna funder books7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Having done a little internet digging, I’ve learned that this novella was commissioned by the pearl brand, Paspaley, as part of a marketing promotion for a new line of jewellery. She is looking for something else, some feeling she had then that has been lost.’ ![]() Though given enough wine and darkness she knows she would, she also knows that this is not about sex. ‘What does she want from him? The thought of getting her clothes off in front of someone who hasn’t had years to acclimatise to her body makes her shudder in the upholstered seat. On a business trip overseas, Tess decides to surprise Mitya, the Russian with whom she fell deeply in love as a twenty-one year old, at the opening of his art exhibition in Paris. They are like hermit crabs who outgrow one shell and need to leave it before they are trapped inside, emerging for a moment, shell-less and pink, vulnerable to predators of every stripe.’ ‘They are at a hinge moment: between youth and age, between the life you thought you wanted and the one you feel might, now, suit you better. When Dan reveals he has been facebooked by an old lover, Tess is spooked. It is the story of middle-aged Tess, who shuttles between her job, her husband of 17 years (Dan), her three children and her ailing father. Reading anything by Anna Funder is always a treat – whether it be fiction or non-fiction – and ‘The Girl with the Dogs’ is no exception to this. ![]()
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