Book description
Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's
London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children'
and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping
to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape
from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the
luscious twins Rose and Blanche. As the legacy of the girls'
ancestor, Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, begins to connect with a
century of history, religion, and evolutionary theory, new hope
looms for the nation's future. Pointing the finger of destiny firmly
at Bobby …
Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (long-listed for
the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the Guardian
Fiction Prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize), The Paper
Eater, War Crimes for the Home (long-listed for the Orange
Prize), and The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, currently in
development as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella. She
divides her time between Copenhagen and London.
