![]() ![]() The Memory of Animals – even with its large, imaginative ideas – shrinks in comparison. Fuller’s prose is poetic yet pragmatic, steering clear of stereotypes and sentimentality. The realities of class, poverty and illiteracy are conveyed with astonishing skill and empathy. ![]() Marginalised by their community, the family maintains a life of closely guarded seclusion. Her award-winning novel, Unsettled Ground, follows 51-year-old twins Julius and Jeanie in the aftermath of their mother’s death. ![]() No one wants to leave the lab.įuller’s earlier books explore themes of isolation. The British government has imposed a 24-hour curfew, allowing the army “to clear the streets of cars and bodies”. They explain that there is a new variant. Only four people remain: Leon, Yahiko, Rebecca and Piper. She wakes to discover that the entire medical staff and most of the volunteers have abandoned the lab. Neffy becomes ill and loses consciousness for several days. She has agreed to being “given a vaccine which was untested on humans, and then the virus which everyone was terrified of catching, and to sit in a room on my own for three weeks”. Neffy is one of 16 volunteers participating in a research trial. In Claire Fuller’s fifth novel, The Memory of Animals, the dropsy virus is sweeping the world “causing disorientation, memory loss, seizures and coma”. ![]()
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