There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff

The Blurb On The Back:

In the beginning there was Bob.

And Bob created the heavens and the earth

and the beasts of the field,

and the creatures of the sea,

and twenty-five million other species

including lots and lots of gorgeous girls.

And all of this, he created in just six days.

Six days!

Congratulations, Bob!

No wonder Earth is such a mess.

Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy, careless, self-obsessed, sex-mad – and about to meet Lucy, the most beautiful girl on earth.

Unfortunately, whenever Bob falls in love, disaster follows.

Let us pray that Bob does not fall in love with Lucy ....

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The Verdict:

Meg Rosoff’s YA novel is a tongue-in-cheek imagining of God as comprising a teenage boy, middle-manager and the lovable Eck. I’m not sure whether it will appeal to YA readers because some of the story is a nod and a wink about teenage behaviour, but there’s enough there to make it worth checking out and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end.

THERE IS NO DOG will be released in the UK on 4th August 2011. Thanks to Penguin for the ARC of this book.