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The Memory of Animals - From the Costa Novel-winning author of Unsettled Ground (Hardcover)
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The Memory of Animals - From the Costa Novel-winning author of Unsettled Ground (Hardcover)
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List price R512
Loot Price R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
You Save R94 (18%)
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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. 'Another literary page-turner ... Compulsive and
thoroughly convincing. Terrific!' Clare Chambers, author of Small
Pleasures '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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