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The Memory of Animals
- Author
- Claire Fuller
- Narrator
- Genevieve Gaunt
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 20 April 2023
- Run Time
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Leave the World Behind
Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.
But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no-one can answer. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?
While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before: a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future?
The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself.
©2023 Claire Fuller (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Following her award-winning novel Unsettled Ground, Fuller has returned with a piece of stunning speculative fiction
The i
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A haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between ... one to get excited about
Stylist, Best Modern Dystopia
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A thought-provoking and utterly compelling novel from a writer we always look forward to reading
Glamour
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Haunting and unsettling, moving and thoughtful, with horror lurking at the edges, this is a subtle, elegant novel. Claire Fuller is a huge talent
Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane
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Claire Fuller is such an interesting and original writer and she has produced another literary page-turner ... Compulsive and thoroughly convincing. Terrific!
Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures
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Fuller is an excellent writer and she neatly conveys boredom as well as dread (no mean feat)
Daily Mail
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Stunning ... A page-turning, topical, edge-of-your-seat story that resonates with the reader on an emotional level, and leaves them thinking about it for a long time afterwards
Louise Morrish, author of Operation Moonlight
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A gripping page-turner, this apocalyptic tale is given warmth and depth by the portrayal of Neffy, a young woman with a complicated past to which she returns to escape the horrors of the present
Woman and Home
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A taut and atmospheric read, an exploration of captivity, sacrifice and survival in a post-apocalyptic world ... Asks important, resonant questions of life in extremis ... Fuller writes brilliantly ... The superb ending ties everything together with a moving, tragic cohesiveness
Irish Times
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A woman once undone by empathy now finds that it could be her salvation in Claire Fuller's stunning postapocalyptic novel ... Sobering and evocative, The Memory of Animals is a novel about who we choose to be when the lights go out
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Details
- Author
- Claire Fuller
- Narrator
- Genevieve Gaunt
- Duration
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 April 2023
- ISBN
- 9780241999455
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Science fiction, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.From the Costa-Winning, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about memory, love and survival, for readers of Never Let me Go and Leave the World BehindNeffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no-one can answer. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before: a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future?The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself.©2023 Claire Fuller (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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