![]() ![]() It was a relief to get back into the booth and read the sections of the book where the animals start talking. I had spent years concocting the most impossible virus, only to witness a disease beyond my imagination infecting, killing and driving the real world towards global isolation. McKay said of her experiences recording the audiobook in March 2020: She had started working on the novel at that time its eventual release at the start of COVID-19 pandemic was a coincidence. The Animals in That Country was inspired by McKay's experiences of the chikungunya virus caught at a writer's festival in Bali in 2013. In the novel, "A pandemic enables animals and humans to communicate," resulting "in a fierce and funny exploration of other consciousnesses and the limits of language." Background ![]() Clarke Award (2021), Victorian Prize for Literature (2021), and Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (2021). The novel won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2020), Arthur C. The Animals in That Country is a 2020 novel by Laura Jean McKay, published by Scribe. Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (2021). ![]()
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