This unexpected and wide-ranging novel on the subject of the relationship between humans and animals from the multi-award winning French writer addresses the perils of domestication across species, achieving a polyphonic effect through the interweaved voices of vets, farmers, butchers and many more.

Olivia Rosenthal is a French novelist and teacher of creative writing. She lectures at Université Paris VIII, where she and a colleague founded one of the first Creative Writing MA programmes in France. Rosenthal's work has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Wepler, the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Alexandre-Vialatte.

Sophie Lewis translates from French and Portuguese.She has translated works by Stendhal, Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Sheyla Smanioto and João Gilberto Noll, among others.