Brace yourself: the trickle of pandemic novels, Covid memoirs and lockdown nature writing is about to become a flood. Art produced from and about the last few years will prove crucial to our collective understanding of ourselves; however, the desire to move on is understandable, too.
One of the more interesting ways to process events is to alter or reimagine them, and this is Claire Fuller’s approach in her fifth novel, The Memory of Animals. Set largely in London, in a dystopian near future, it’s a huge tonal shift after the rural noir of her Costa Novel award-winning Unsettled Ground.
