When Lee turns up on Jean’s doorstep and proceeds to infect everyone at the animal park and then kidnap Kimberly so they can go and speak to the whales, Jean becomes desperate. Jean’s existence is a tenuous one and she’s not what you would call reliable, but she loves Kimberly with all her heart and does her best to look out for her.Īs disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too.Īs the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds. She also enjoys the company of her granddaughter Kimberly who is the result of a brief relationship between park manager Angela and Jean’s son Lee – Lee left soon after the birth. Jean is not your usual grandma. She’s rough and ready, an alcoholic and prefers the company of animals, particularly Sue, a dingo that lives in the animal park where she lives and works.
The Animals in That Country asks what would happen if – for better or worse – we finally understood what animals were saying. The Animals in That Country is a frighteningly timely story about a flu-like pandemic sweeping the country – what are the chances that author Laura Jean McKay, who was writing this book months if not years ago, would have known it would be published in the middle of a lockdown because of a pandemic? There is one very big difference one of the symptoms of this flu is being able to understand and communicate with animals…
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