Kellye garrett books in order5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Loosely based on a real town and the obscure historical figure Baynes, Unlikely Animals feels like a fairy tale-if fairy tales encapsulated all the messiness of real life. The ghosts know Baynes is real and initially find Clive's predicament "both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best." They're less amused, however, after they learn Emma can't help Clive "edge the Grim Reaper out by a nose." Her hands have lost the healing touch. Baynes has suggestions for susceptible Clive, like ordering an $18,000 semi-domesticated Russian fox. ![]() Professor Clive Starling is dying of a brain disease so mysterious it can be diagnosed only via autopsy, and he now spends his days with the ghost of naturalist Ernest Harold Baynes. When the med school dropout arrives back in tiny Everton, everyone assumes she's come to heal her father. Since birth, 22-year-old Emma Starling has possessed the power to heal with her touch. In Unlikely Animals, the wistfully charming tragicomedy from Annie Hartnett ( Rabbit Cake), a chorus of all-seeing ghosts tied to a cemetery in Everton, N.H., relates an offbeat saga of peculiar animals, missing people and family ties, set against the backdrop of the opioid crisis. ![]()
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