Monday 29 October, 2007

The Lost Dog (and the nose of an un-lost one)

If you are Melbourne based, come along to Readings on November 8 and see my conversation with Michelle de Krester about her new novel The Lost Dog. It's a wonderful novel (Ampersand Duck did the cover)- I highly commend it. It's more contemporary than Michelle's first two novels and wonderfully evocative of Melbourne. It's about consumerism, love, hybrid identity, Henry James, dogs, and it has this line in it which captures, quite perfectly, why loving animals is an important thing for humans to do: 'In accommodating that unruliness, Tom's life flowed in a broader vein.'

Here is the echo of Ollie's nose (Ollie is one of Michelle's dogs). He kept coming up to me while I tried to photograph him. Thus this picture.