Girl, the Dog and the Writer

'FANS OF ... JACQUELINE HARVEY WILL LOVE THIS BOOK' -- Kids' Book Review on The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome When Freja and Tobias arrive in Claviers, Provence, it feels like home. The hilltop village is surrounded by olive groves, lavender fields and drifts of red poppies. The market square hides a world-famous pâtisserie and an antique merry-go-round. Pippin, their precocious young neighbour, and Vivi, the beautiful chef, fill their lives with chatter and laughter and love. For a moment, the girl, the dog and the writer are happy. But a spate of criminal activity casts a cloud over the village. Freja is determined to solve the mystery and uncover the villain, but the closer she gets, the more impossible things seem to become ... Award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad is back with the much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome. PRAISE FOR THE GIRL, THE DOG AND THE WRITER SERIES 'sure to be treasured' -- Children's Book Council of Australia's Reading Time 'Fans of the Clementine Rose and Alice-Miranda series by Jacqueline Harvey will love this book' -- Kids' Book Review 'Children from eight up will really warm to this funny, sad, happy book, and many adults will be charmed too' -- The Book Bubble 'The mini world that author Katrina Nannestad has created is every child's dream. 8+ readers will love this book' -- Better Reading 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards -- Longlisted 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards -- Notable

Freja and her mother, Clementine, are reunited at last. Tobias and Vivi are in love. And Lucerne, their new home, is a paradise of snowy alps, sapphire lakes, white swans and delicious Swiss chocolate! Everything seems perfect, until poor Lady P appears, bandaged from head to toe after a fall -- or was it a push? Crimes break out across the city, all involving chocolate. Clementine doesn't seem her usual self. And still Freja has not solved the biggest mystery -- who is Tobias Appleby? All will be revealed in the girl, the dog and the writer's final adventure by award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad.