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Galina Petrovna's Three-Legged Dog Story

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One of our Books of the Year 2015.

A quite slow-moving tale of some old folk in Russia which may not be action-packed but it is certainly observation packed. Set about twenty years ago it is frequently damning of the country. Once glorious buildings are now damp, run-down and cold and anyone with any power (that includes the railway booking clerk) is mean and nasty. Bureaucracy is everywhere, queues, corruption and bribery abound. In this bleak work we meet an old lady, her stray three-legged dog Boroda, her best friend of some forty years, an ancient admirer, a sweet lively woman and the evil dog catcher! Both dog and admirer get caught and the ladies jump to the rescue. A gentle tale with bags of charm. ~ Sarah Broadhurst

 

How this novel came to be published is also a heartwarming tale. It was submitted to the publisher HarperCollins without an agent, during an 'open submission' period in April 2013. The author, Andrea Bennett, had previously submitted her manuscript to a dozen agents without luck before hearing of HarperCollins’s open submission period. It was then picked up from among those manuscripts submitted and eventually published in February 2015.

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