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Living with Freddie

Anna Heyward
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780349016535
  • Dimensions: 138 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2026
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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An extraordinary memoir about learning to see the world through a dog's eyes, by a New Yorker writer and animal behaviour expert

'A beautiful book ... leaving the reader feeling enlarged and enlightened' ELIF BATUMAN

When Anna Heyward adopted Freddie, a rescued Italian greyhound, she was thrilled to bring a dog into her life. But Freddie, she quickly realised, had separation anxiety and was unable to be left alone. Some would have given up and returned the dog to the rescue centre but Anna, instead, became obsessed with trying to help Freddie, which meant putting her relationship, social life and job at risk. As Anna observed Freddie's behavior, she began to change - but not in the way you might expect.

Living with Freddie is a story about what it means to be bad or good, how much we can - or should - try to alter another being's behavior, and what it is possible to know about another mind. But at its heart, this is a beautiful, heart-wrenching portrait of the relationship between a human and a dog. And at the end of Freddie's story, you, too, may find yourself changed.

'Compelling, vivid, and essential' Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

'An extraordinary, beautifully written book ... a stunning meditation on the bond between beasts and humans' Marc Bekoff, Ph.D. author of Dogs Demystified: An A-to-Z Guide to All Things Canine and The Emotional Lives of Animals

'Heyward writes with sublime curiosity, uncommon lucidity, and an open heart-about her dog Freddie, yes, but also about love, devotion, suffering, natural selection, conditioning, and humans' relationship with the nonhuman world. I couldn't put it down' Carolyn Kormann
About Anna Heyward
Anna Heyward is a former editorial staffer of The New Yorker. She is a graduate student in animal behaviour and welfare science at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and is working as a dog trainer. Her writing has also been published by the New York Times, New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Paris Review, and Vogue, among others. She was a 2018 Ravitch Fellow at the CUNY School of Journalism. Anna lives in New York but is often in London and Melbourne, where she was born. She currently lives with a chihuahua cross named Big Girl, who can be seen on instagram.com/biggirl.world.

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