ANIMALS

From the multiple award-winning author of HIM, Was and The Child Garden comes a powerful, gripping new novel.


ANIMALS
tells the chilling tale of a family caught at the heart of a terrifying and transformative epidemic, in an astonishing fusion of beautiful writing and pure horror at its finest.

Teddy has always been a special child. Frightened by other children, described as ‘imaginative’ by teachers, home-schooled by his mother. His closest friend was his father, until he left them for another man.

Now, his closest friends are the family the greyhounds his mother used to breed for racing; the three-hundred-pound family pig Charity and her best friend, a duck; and the stray cat he slowly Little One.

His life has never been idyllic, but it was his, until he and his mother are struck down with an inexplicable fever. Over the course of the hot drought-stricken Oxfordshire summer, all of their animals fall sick. Whatever the mystery illness is, it’s targeting animals… and it’s not long before the animals start to target them…