Dogs of Summer

'Bold, dazzling, hilarIous' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A revelation' NEW YORK TIMES 'As sultry as the summer weather' GUARDIAN Stuck in a working-class neighbourhood, high up among Tenerife's volcanoes, a ten-year-old girl dreams of hitching a ride to the faraway beach. Instead she hangs out with her best friend, Isora. She likes everything about Isora. From the colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes to the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. But she envies her too. Envies her grits and gut; her periods and her pubes; the way she is growing up at full tilt without her. As the summer goes on and the heat becomes ever more oppressive, friendship simmers into obsession, desire into intimate violence. Translated by Julia Sanches 'Sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic. Abreu's talent is thrilling' IRISH TIMES 'The sentences blast off the pages' JAMES BRINKLEY 'I have a new favourite writer' RACHAEL ALLEN

Andrea Abreu (Tenerife, 1995) studied journalism at La Laguna University and moved to Madrid in 2017 to study a masters. She is a regular contributor for Tentaciones-El País, LOLA (BuzzFeed), Vice, Zenda and Quimera, among others. Her debut novel, Panza de Burro, was first published in Spain to great acclaim. In 2021, Andrea Abreu was included in Granta's new selection in a decade of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.