The Memory Of Animals by Clare Fuller

The Memory Of Animals, the new book from the Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground, is a haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between.

It follows the story of Neffy – a young woman who answers the call to take part in an experimental vaccine trial to run away from the grief and guilt that’s consuming her. Once she arrives, however, disaster strikes – and as the world falls silent, she and the four strangers on her unit are left to survive on their own with questions no one can answer.

But as she ponders the precarity of her situation, Neffy is introduced to a piece of technology that gives her the ability to revisit memories from her life before. Intoxicated by this new escape, she slips further and further away from the perilous reality in front of her. Will this obsession become her downfall?

Coming out later this week, The Memory Of Animals is one to get excited about.

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