
The Animals in That Country
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Narrated by:
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Laura Jean McKay
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By:
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Laura Jean McKay
About this listen
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award.
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.
©2020 Laura Jean McKay (P)2020 W. F. Howes LtdCritic Reviews
"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)
Pushes the boundaries
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Interesting
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Interesting concept not fully realised
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Interesting story, average narration
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The concept is amazing
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The writing is good, and the story is original, but i never managed to fully get into it.
Distracting narration
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Unique!
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Great idea, but somehow didn't quite pull it off.
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Great aussie story - excellently voiced
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Great story, average narration
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