The Memory of Animals: From the Costa Novel Award-winning author of Unsettled Ground

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a b Shettleworth SJ (December 2012). "Do animals have insight, and what is insight anyway?". Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 66 (4): 217–26. doi: 10.1037/a0030674. PMID 23231629. Brings to mind Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark. As London descends into chaos outside the hospital windows, Neffy befriends Leon, who before the pandemic had been working on a controversial technology that allows users to revisit their memories. She withdraws into projections of her past—a childhood bisected by divorce, a recent love affair, her obsessive research with octopuses, and the one mistake that ended her career. The lines between past, present, and future begin to blur, and Neffy is left with defining questions: Who can she trust? Why can’t she forgive herself? How should she live, if she survives?

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Several experiments cannot be readily reconciled with the belief that some animal species are intelligent, insightful, or possess a theory of mind. Herrnstein RJ (1979). "Acquisition, Generalization, and Discrimination Reversal of a Natural Concept". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 5 (2): 116–129. doi: 10.1037/0097-7403.5.2.116. PMID 528881. a b Finn JK, Tregenza T, Norman MD (December 2009). "Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus". Current Biology. 19 (23): R1069-70. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.052. PMID 20064403. S2CID 26835945.The Rhesus monkeys have shown an amazing ability to be able to learn from past experiences. They will remember what happened last time that did the same thing. Birds With Good Memory

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From the Costa-Winning, Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Unsettled Ground: a gripping, haunting novel about human need and survival, for readers of Never Let me Goand Station Eleven Fiset S, Plourde V (May 2013). "Object permanence in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus)". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 127 (2): 115–27. doi: 10.1037/a0030595. PMID 23106804.

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Vorhees CV, Williams MT (2006). "Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory". Nature Protocols. 1 (2): 848–58. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2006.116. PMC 2895266. PMID 17406317. Some animals have an incredible memory. They can remember your face for ages or they can hold a grudge forever. Foerder P, Galloway M, Barthel T, Moore DE, Reiss D (2011). Samuel A (ed.). "Insightful problem solving in an Asian elephant". PLOS ONE. 6 (8): e23251. Bibcode: 2011PLoSO...623251F. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023251. PMC 3158079. PMID 21876741.

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Stebbins WC, Berkley MA (1990). Comparative Perception, Vol. I, Basic Mechanisms; Vol. II, Complex Signals. New York: Wiley. Western lowland gorillas given the choice between two food trays demonstrated the ability to choose the tray with more food items at a rate higher than chance after training. [113] In a similar task, chimpanzees chose the option with the larger amount of food. [114] Salamanders given a choice between two displays with differing amounts of fruit flies, used as a food reward, reliably choose the display with more flies, as shown in a particular experiment. [115] Pepperberg IM (October 2006). "Grey parrot numerical competence: a review". Animal Cognition. 9 (4): 377–91. doi: 10.1007/s10071-006-0034-7. PMID 16909236. S2CID 30689821.Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers a way for her to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to begin to make up for the past. The Memory of Animals has done the impossible—made me eagerly anticipate a novel that involves a pandemic in the year 2023. It’s also got: experimental technology that allows users to revisit their memories, marine biology, and promises to be an immersive, thought-provoking, and haunting-in-a-good-way literary masterwork. Claire Fuller’s first four novels have garnered her notable acclaim. Her debut, Our Endless Numbered Days (2015), won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons (2017) was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award; and Unsettled Ground was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and won the 2021 Costa Novel Award. What a disappointment, then, to discover that her ­latest offering, The Memory of ­Animals, is a bit of a mess: a hodgepodge of weirdly disparate plot threads, all rather laboriously and unconvincingly cobbled together with cheap sentiment. In 2015, novelist Claire Fuller debuted with Our Endless Numbered Days, the story of a girl kidnapped by her survivalist father and raised in the wilderness, where she’s led to believe they are the only two people left alive after a nuclear apocalypse. She has gone on to create other such potently enclosed worlds in books including Bitter Orange and the Costa novel prize-winning Unsettled Ground, often using that same rural remoteness to enhance the feeling of isolation and its accompanying sense of slow-burn jeopardy.