Whatever the linguistic equivalent of perfect pitch may be, she has it - Sunday Telegraph (UK) The Lost Dog is the extraordinary new novel by the acclaimed writer Michelle de Kretser. Her first novel, The Rose Grower, was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Her second, The Hamilton Case, won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific), the Tasmania Prize and the Encore Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Set in present-day Australia and mid-20th century India, The Lost Dog is a haunting, beautifully written work that brilliantly counterpoints new cityscapes and their inhabitants with the wild, ancient continent beyond. With its atmosphere of menace and an acute sense of the unexplained in any story, The Lost Dog intriguingly highlights the collision of the primal and the civilised, modernity and the past and home and exile. A mystery, a love story, a celebration of dogs and the joy they bring us, and a meditation on the essence of art and nature, The Lost Dog is a gripping contemporary novel which explores the weight of history as well as different ways of seeing and comprehending the world.