In addition to her latest novel, The Memory of Animals (Tin House), Claire Fuller is the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize Swimming Lessons Bitter Orange and Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The lines between past, present, and future begin to blur, and Neffy is left with defining questions: Who can she trust? Why can’t she forgive herself? How should she live, if she survives?Ĭlaire Fuller’s The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines us-and the lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love. She withdraws into projections of her past-a childhood bisected by divorce, a recent love affair, her obsessive research with octopuses and the one mistake that ended her career. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers-Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper-cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there.Īs London descends into chaos outside the hospital windows, Neffy befriends Leon, who before the pandemic had been working on a controversial technology that allows users to revisit their memories. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London-perhaps humanity’s last hope for a cure. In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. About the Bookįrom the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Unsettled Ground comes a beautiful and searing novel of memory, love, survival-and octopuses. She will be in conversation with Catherine Newman. Join us in person on Tuesday, June 6 at 7 PM as Claire Fuller launches her new novel, The Memory of Animals.

The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller