Lady

If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch. Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure – pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she's fed up with all that. She's been having fun, running wild – some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She's frightened at first, but she quickly realises there are pleasures she hardly knew existed. Is being human worth all the effort? 'It's original, challenging and incredibly rude' Independent 'It has Burgess's unpredictability, darkness and ability to confront the dispiriting' Observer