How to Be Human
General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
From Guardian writer Paula Cocozza a debut novel of the breakdown of a marriage suburbian claustrophobia and a woman s unseemly passion for a fox You ve seen a fox Come face… to face in an unexpected place or at an unexpected moment And he has looked at you as you have looked at him As if he has something to tell you or you have something to tell him But what if it didn t stop there When Mary arrives home from work one day to find a magnificent fox on her lawn his ears spiked in attention and every hair bristling with his power to surprise it is only the beginning He brings gifts at least Mary imagines they are gifts and gradually makes himself at home And as he listens to Mary Mary listens back She begins to hear herself for the first time in years Her bullish ex-boyfriend still lurking on the fringes of her life would be appalled So would the neighbours with a new baby They only like wildlife that fits with the decor and they are determined to defend the boundary between the domestic and the wild But inside Mary a wildness is growing that will not be tamed In this extraordinary debut the lines between sanity and safety obsession and delusion blur in a thrilling exploration of what makes us human