Stanley and Sophie

'A fiercely intelligent writer and an astute observer of people and her surroundings, award-winning novelist Kate Jennings was also and irascible Australian with no time for indulgent New Yorkers and their pampered pets. But when she fell for a spirited border terrier - Stanley - she fell hard. In time, jennings found him a companion, Sophie, who combined an angelic face with steely orphan-girl determination."--Inside dust jacket.