The Animals in That Country

<p><strong>WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD</strong></p> <p><strong>A <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em> BOOK OF THE YEAR</strong></p> <p><strong>Out on the road no one speaks everything talks.</strong></p> <p>Hard-drinking foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans apart from her granddaughter Kimberly. Instead she surrounds herself with animals working as a guide in an outback wildlife park.</p> <p>Then a strange pandemic begins sweeping the country its chief symptom that its victims begin to understand the language of animals. Many infected people lose their minds including Jean&#146;s son Lee.</p> <p>When he takes off with Kimberly Jean follows with Sue the dingo riding shotgun. As they travel they discover a stark strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species.</p>