The novel is told through a surprising narrative voice: the collective conscience of dead people buried in the local cemetery. No one knows exactly what is wrong with Clive Starling apart from the hallucinations he keeps having of Ernest Harold Baynes, a dead naturalist, and the animals that surrounded Baynes. But, when she drops out of medical school to return to New Hampshire to care for her father, Emma encounters her greatest failings and worst fears in Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals. Blessed with a healing touch as a young girl, everyone knew she would become a doctor and save countless lives. When she left home and became a legend of small town Everton, Emma Starling was a local healer off to tackle the world.
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