![]() It’s spellbinding in a way few dystopian novels can be spellbinding. I would put it down and then itch to pick it up again. ![]() I ate this book up in the space of a weekend. But being able to communicate with non-humans - including mammals, birds and insects - isn’t as wonderful as you might expect, for the messages, random, garbled and incessant, are frightening: the animals are calling for help. This wholly original novel is unique in so many ways, not least of which is its premise: there’s a flu-like pandemic raging across Australia that allows those infected to understand what animals are saying. The 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist is due to be announced later this month and I’d like to think that Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals in that Country may feature on it. ![]() Fiction – paperback Scribe 288 pages 2020. ![]()
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