What would you do if the human race suddenly got deposed by a higher species who set about colonising our planet, eradicating all semblance of our culture, and farming us like cattle? Set in a dystopian near-future Now We Are Animals takes the form of a pair of journals written by Cara contrasting her isolated existence as a pet, with her traumatic experiences from a year earlier, when the normality of her life as an A Level English student was swept away by the arrival of the Colonists... moreWhat would you do if the human race suddenly got deposed by a higher species who set about colonising our planet, eradicating all semblance of our culture, and farming us like cattle? Set in a dystopian near-future Now We Are Animals takes the form of a pair of journals written by Cara contrasting her isolated existence as a pet, with her traumatic experiences from a year earlier, when the normality of her life as an A Level English student was swept away by the arrival of the Colonists.The journals capture how Cara’s feelings of resignation turn first to resentment and then to resistance, the very act of writing awakening in her the human creativity that the Colonists have sought to suppress. Cara herself is no natural rebel, just a normal teenager with all that that entails, but in her exciting, funny and at times moving commentary on her plight, we are reminded why humanity might just be worth saving...A brilliant new novel from the author of The Collaborators and The Second Best Man which will change the way you think about animals – and each other – forever. less
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