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The animals in that country

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  • Running Time: 08:33 hrs
    Narrator: Laura Jean McKay
    Publisher:
    Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 08:33 hrs
    Narrator: Laura Jean McKay
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component

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  • Contributor: Jean McKay, Laura
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2020
    Summary:

    Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals in That Country asks what would happen, for better or worse, if we finally understood what animals were saying. "A game-changing, life-changing novel." CERIDWEN DOVEY "Deliriously strange, blackly hilarious, and completely exhilarating." JAMES BRADLEY "Engrossing, subversive, and surprisingly profound." J.P. POMARE

    Original Publisher: Rearsby, Leicestershire, Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781004000401