{"title":"Anna Heyward","description":"Anna Heyward is a former editorial staffer of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eT Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","products":[{"product_id":"living-with-freddie","title":"Living with Freddie","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary memoir about learning to see the world through a dog's eyes, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eby a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter and animal behaviour expert\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving with Freddie \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.","brand":"Virago","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55444972863864,"sku":"9780349016535","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/3364\/4979\/files\/9780349016535-original.jpg?v=1776746346"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.virago.co.uk\/collections\/author-anna-heyward.oembed","provider":"Virago Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}