Month of the Drowned Dog

Widowed geologist Jon Tain is found dead in a remote Scottish graveyard. Death from exposure; a tragic accident. His daughter Jane is baffled by the events which led up to his death and sets out to make sense of his final mysterious car journey from Hampshire to the Highlands. As she journeys deep into her father's past she uncovers a secret love - and finds a new love of her own. The Professor's Wife - a poignant tale of deceit, secrecy and betrayal. As he read through the manuscript of this unpublished novel written years earlier, the writer was struck by how false it seemed, both in its language and plot and in its representation of the story underlying the narrative. But could anything be rescued from it?

Month of the Drowned Dog - a novel about death, biography, literature and the deceptions of narrative.