Review – The Animals by Carol Houlihan Flynn

Posted on by Clare Cogbill

I loved this book.
I only ever read just before I go to sleep, and I found this was one of those books I kept on thinking about into the next day. Each day I couldn’t wait for bedtime so I could start reading again – it is like a good film which lingers in your mind. The book is entertaining, but also full of underlying regret about the outcome for some of the animals which make their way into the family. You get a strong sense of retrospective despair and want to keep on reading to see what is going to happen next. It is fluently written and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
There is a lesson to each us about how animals are perceived in our society, but also about honesty and ‘coming clean’ about the mistakes we make along the way – something which the author has done admirably well in this book.

Here’s the link if anyone would like to give it a go 🙂

 

 

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Published by Clare Cogbill

I am an author and a lecturer in veterinary nursing and companion animal welfare. I've now written six books and a vegan cookery book: A Dog Like Ralph, Lilac Haze', 'A Soldier Like Jack', and 'The Diary of a Human and a Dog (or three!)' The vegan cookbook is imaginatively entitled 'Vegan Cookbook'! I love animals and despise any form of animal cruelty. I've been vegan since 2002 — my only regret about this is that I didn't become vegan sooner. I dream of a world in which there is no human or animal suffering, one in which governments across the world take seriously (and act upon) the threats posed to our fragile environment and its people and animals. I live with three dogs and love spending time with them and my husband and son. Like most writers, I love to read, and particularly like to read books about animals. On here you’ll find some reviews of books that I’ve read and loved in which animals are the main focus. My first non-animal novel Picture Me Now (although some animals do creep into its pages), presented a new challenge for me in that I had to delve into the depths of my imagination much more that I had to with previous books. I loved getting lost in another world! Please get in touch and let me know what you think about my books.

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