Anna Heyward has written the kind of book that begins with an animal and ends up somewhere entirely human. Living with Freddie takes the daily reality of sharing a home with a dog whose anxieties will not simply be trained away, and follows where that leads: into questions about attention, patience, and how much of ourselves we are prepared to rearrange for another creature.
It is filed here across home and science, an odd-looking pair until you listen. The domestic detail supplies the texture, but the curiosity underneath is genuinely scientific, concerned with what an animal actually experiences rather than with what we would like to believe it feels. That combination lifts it clear of the standard pet memoir.