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Attila is a Ghanaian psychiatrist, visiting London for a conference. Jean is an American zoologist making a study of urban wildlife. The foxes have migrated into the city from the countryside; the parakeets have come here too, somehow. Almost all of the characters, human and animal, have converged on London from other places, and it gives a view of the city that we rarely get in novels, reflecting the 21st-century city as something very different from the images that persist in our culture of th
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This is an 'it's not you it's me' book - I recognize that the writing is beautiful, but there simply isn't enough happening to keep me interested. DNFed at 60%.
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