A01=Carrie Tiffany
A12=Noel McKenna
Alzheimer's disease
Author_Carrie Tiffany
Author_Noel McKenna
Category=FYC
Chekhov
Covid
death
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forthcoming
grief
isolation
lockdown
novella
Product details
- ISBN 9781761170843
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Lady with the Dog is a personal, poetic work loosely based on Carrie Tiffany’s mother’s and stepfather’s final months. It centres on a woman living with Alzheimer’s, deeply attached to the dog she’s recently adopted with her devoted but unwell husband. As the woman’s condition worsens, the dog becomes both companion and symbol, anchoring her to the world. The novella transforms real events experienced by Tiffany’s family during Western Australia’s extended COVID lockdown into a resonant imaginative narrative of memory, love and loss.
A homage to the exquisite sadness of Chekhov’s short story of the same name, The Lady with the Dog, with whimsical illustrations from Noel McKenna, is an imaginative biography of a mother’s last months and a meditation on the role of animals in language and life.
A homage to the exquisite sadness of Chekhov’s short story of the same name, The Lady with the Dog, with whimsical illustrations from Noel McKenna, is an imaginative biography of a mother’s last months and a meditation on the role of animals in language and life.
Carrie Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and grew up in Western Australia. Her first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and won the Dobbie Award for Best First Book and the WA Premier's Award for Fiction. Her second novel, Mateship with Birds, was the winner of the inaugural Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Literary Award for fiction. Her third novel, Exploded View, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the Queensland Fiction Book Award.
Noel McKenna's works examine his version of suburban culture in its many guises. He is interested in the everyday, the unobserved, the underappreciated and the neglected. McKenna's practice traverses media from drawing, prints, sculpture, painting, and both functional and non-functional ceramic ware. He has been the subject of several significant museum exhibitions and his work is held in many public, private and corporate collections.
