The ghosts of various dead townspeople weigh in throughout, such as “real-life Doctor Doolittle” Baynes, whom Clive reveres and who now tells Clive what to do. With the police unconcerned over Crystal’s disappearance, Emma decides to work with Clive to solve the mystery. When Emma becomes a substitute teacher for fifth graders, she’s drawn back into all the drama of her hometown, including her brother Auggie’s opioid addiction and her mother Ingrid’s unhappiness. Clive was forced to retire from his professorship due to his hallucinations of animals and is now obsessed with finding Emma’s high school best friend Crystal Nash, who has been missing for several months. Emma Starling, 22, drops out of medical school to help care for her father, Clive, who is suffering from a rare brain disease. His 2019 novel, The Student, was a finalist for both the Toronto Book Award and the Governor General's Literary Award.Hartnett ( Rabbit Cake) delivers a quirky ghost story set in present-day Upper Valley, N.H., inspired by the legacy of naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes. In 2014, Fagan received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work. He is also the author of the novel A Bird's Eye, a finalist for the Rogers Trust Fiction Prize and was an Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year, and the short story collection My Life Among the Apes.
His children's books include the popular Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville's Medicine Show and the picture book Mr.
When fi re breaks out, Dorn takes on the unlikely role of hero in the hope of changing the course of his life.Ī realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one's place in society. Soon, Dorn receives a mysterious commission, finds a body in a park, and has several run-ins with a former classmate-turned police officer. Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored "Wild Home Project" is introduced and wolves, rats, minks, otters, and bears move into villagers' homes. Yet life is far from idyllic he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit his love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher. In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops.
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