{"product_id":"unlikely-animals-9781399710763","title":"Unlikely Animals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003eA lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eRabbit Cake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Bewitching!''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Heartfelt, touching and delightfully quirky''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she''s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she''s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wondrous and wonderful story\u003c\/b\u003e filled with \u003cb\u003eunforgettable characters\u003c\/b\u003e, both living and dead . . . \u003cb\u003ean instant classic\u003c\/b\u003e * Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy *\u003cbr\u003eHartnett's \u003cb\u003ewhimsical storytelling casts a spell\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eAn absurdist, \u003cb\u003elaugh-out-loud family drama\u003c\/b\u003e about intergenerational healing * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eI \u003cb\u003edevoured\u003c\/b\u003e Annie Hartnett's \u003ci\u003eUnlikely Animals\u003c\/i\u003e. She's created a beautiful menagerie set inside a troubled household and their small New Hampshire town; \u003cb\u003ea delightful mess of tenderness, grief, and despair, but most important, hope\u003c\/b\u003e * Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnlikely Animals\u003c\/i\u003e possesses such \u003cb\u003etenderness and empathy\u003c\/b\u003e for a world that wears us down and ruins us, a world that sometimes offers a glimmer of hope, and Hartnett knows how to turn up the brilliance of that light and wield it to do magical things * Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here and The Family Fang *\u003cbr\u003eHartnett \u003cb\u003emasterfully\u003c\/b\u003e balances a story of deep loss with the\u003cb\u003e perfect amount of hilarity and tenderness\u003c\/b\u003e * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eThis is \u003cb\u003ea big novel doing big things\u003c\/b\u003e. It bears some similarity to Hartnett's much- loved first novel, \u003ci\u003eRabbit Cake.\u003c\/i\u003e . . . But \u003ci\u003eUnlikely Animals\u003c\/i\u003e is a broader, brassier, and even more \u003cb\u003efiercely tender story\u003c\/b\u003e. In this, her second novel,\u003cb\u003e Hartnett lands an astonishing leap as a storyteller\u003c\/b\u003e * The Rumpus *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWistfully charming\u003c\/b\u003e . . . This unapologetically genre-bending tribute to life and death, and the beautiful weirdness found in both, has \u003cb\u003epotential to spark exceptional book club discussions\u003c\/b\u003e * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBewitching!\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] \u003cb\u003ea magical, soul-stirring read\u003c\/b\u003e about family and the ways we put ourselves back together * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeartfelt, touching\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003edelightfully quirky\u003c\/b\u003e * Good Housekeeping *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving novel\u003c\/b\u003e about family, friendship and loss that manages to be \u003cb\u003eboth at times quirkily surreal as well as rooted in the realities of small-town life\u003c\/b\u003e * Choice *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47836761325911,"sku":"9781399710763","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399710763.jpg?v=1710382225","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unlikely-animals-9781399710763","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}