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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