'Truthful - and often very funny - this is as true a book about a dog as you will find' -
Telegraph In this poignant funny and disarmingly honest memoir one of the world's most
beloved storytellers bestselling author of The Book Thief tells of his family's adoption of
three troublesome rescue dogs - a charming and courageous love story about making even the most
incorrigible of animals family. What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three
big wild pound-hardened dogs - Reuben a wolf at your door with a hacksaw Archer blond
beautiful deadly and the rancorously smiling Frosty who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?
The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights public shamings property trashing
bodily injuries stomach pumping purest comedy and carnage that needs to be seen to be
believed . . . not to mention the odd police visit at some ungodly hour. There is a reckoning
of shortcomings and failure a strengthening of will but most important of all an explosion
of love - and the joy and recognition of family. Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) is a love
letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty straight to our doors and into our lives
and change us forever. 'Funny and charming . . . A stirring tale of the bond that can form
between human and hound' - The Times
