The Memory of Animals

Resumen del libro

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past.

But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no-one can answer.

Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there?

While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before: a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future?

The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Claire Fuller (1967, Oxfordshire, Inglaterra) estudió escultura en la Escuela de Arte de Winchester, obtuvo un máster de Escritura Creativa y Escritura Crítica por la Universidad de Winchester y comenzó su carrera como escritora a la edad de cuarenta años. Sus novelas han recibido una excelente acogida y se han traducido a más de veinte idiomas: x{0026}lt;i Nuestros días serán infinitosx{0026}lt;/i , que publicamos ahora en Impedimenta, fue ganadora del premio Desmond Elliott a mejor debut literario en 2015; x{0026}lt;i Swimming Lessonsx{0026}lt;/i (2017) obtuvo el premio Livre de Poche en Francia; x{0026}lt;i Naranjas amargasx{0026}lt;/I (2018) fue preseleccionada para el International Dublin Literary Award y x{0026}lt;i Tierra inestablex{0026}lt;/i (2021; Impedimenta, 2023) obtuvo el Costa Novel Award, y fue preseleccionada para el Womenx{0026} x02019;s Prize for Fiction. Sus cuentos han sido publicados en varias revistas literarias: Baker, Emily and Me ganó el concurso BBC Opening Lines de 2014, y A Quiet Tidy Man ganó el premio de la Royal Academy en la categoría de relatos. x{0026}lt;i La memoria de los animalesx{0026}lt;/i (2023; Impedimenta, 2024) es su novela más reciente. Actualmente Claire Fuller vive en Winchester.x{0026}lt;/p