Wild Dog

Franck and Lise, a Parisian couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot, with no phone signal, to get away from the stresses of modern life. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild. They meet a German lion tamer, who took refuge during the First World War . . .Faced with nature at its most brutal, the holiday-makers are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think.



Serge Joncour is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Paris in 1961 and studied philosophy at university before deciding to become a writer. He wrote the screenplay for Sarah's Key starring Kristin Scott Thomas, released in 2011. Wild Dog, winner of the Prix Landerneau des Lecteurs in France, is the first of his novels to be published in English.