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    Ark Baby

    By Liz Jensen

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    Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the luscious twins Rose and Blanche. As the legacy of the girls' ancestor, Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, begins to connect with a century of history, religion, and evolutionary theory, new hope looms for the nation's future. Pointing the finger of destiny firmly at Bobby ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2011
    ISBN9781408813591
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    Ark Baby
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    Liz Jensen

    Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of eight acclaimed novels, including the Guardian-shortlisted Ark Baby, War Crimes for the Home, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, The Rapture, shortlisted for the Brit Writers' Awards and selected as a Channel 4 TV Book Club Best Read, and, most recently, The Uninvited. She has been nominated three times for the Orange Prize for Fiction and her work has been published in more than twenty countries. Liz Jensen lives in Wimbledon, London. www.lizjensen.com

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    • 5/5
      'There will be two world wars,' murmurs the Laudanum Empress, yawning over her untouched cup and saucer. It is the heyday of her psychic particles. 'As a result, a million skulls will be strewn all over France.' She pauses, squinting sideways. 'But on the more positive side, there will be something known as long-life milk.' A darkly comic satire about Darwinism, heredity and religious belief, and featuring parsons, freaks, laudanum addicts, ghosts, taxidermists, vets, obsessive cooks, and an ark full of zoological samples. The story is set in two time periods: the early to mid-Victorian era and a modern-day Britain that was struck by 100% female infertility at the millennium.A wonderful book - and there is another of the author's books among my TBRs. I must move "The Ninth Life of Louis Drax" up nearer to the top of the heap.
    • 3/5
      It has some very funny parts. It has some very good insights. It is a bit too far-fetched. The reader clues in to the "mystery" that drives the story long before the story gets you there.I wanted to like this story so much more than I actually did. I guess when one gets into religious extremism and couples this with a big dose of extreme evolution, then toss in a bit of the supernatural, you get Ark Baby. Oh, and don't forget the "British" humor speckled throughout. All in all, it should be a very good read; I just didn't find any of the characters approachable, enjoyable or easy to relate to.
    • 3/5
      An interesting novel about the boundaries between humans and primates. It has some interesting passages but is hampered by an awkward structure that has parallel stories which converge towards towards the end.