![]() ![]() ![]() Įxquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by one of our brightest young writers. ![]() And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the US Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. In the siege of Sarajevo a bear starving to death tells a fairytale. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. In Nazi Germany a dog seeks enlightenment. In a trench on the Western Front a cat recalls her owner Colette’s theatrical antics in Paris. The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century tell their astonishing stories of life and death. Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human. Exquisitely written, playful and poignant, Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by the award-winning Ceridwen Dovey, one of our brightest young writers. ![]()
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