"Disgrace" by JM Coetzee

Picked up this book in a Charity Shop one day just for the cover, yes a dog on the front. Yes there is a subtle theme about dogs in it, but more an anology of what is going on around the author. It won a Booker Prize and I can see why. It is a straight forward short read and you feel that you just cannot put it down. Lurie is the main character who is unable to relate to women, having married twice and then turning to prostitutes and then one day has an affair with one of his students and is disgraced and exiled from the university where he is working. It is set in South Africa where Lurie spends time with his daughter Lucy on her small holding - post-apartheid where thugs get away with rape, robbery and attempted robbery.