![]() ![]() the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ – The Times ‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom. ‘Strange yet brilliant.’ – Literary Review ‘Exquisite and hilarious.’ – Lauren Groff, author of The Matrix and Fates and Furies But as summer blooms across the island and Lou shakes off the city, she realises the bear might satisfy some needs of her own. ![]() Lou soon begins to anticipate the bear’s needs for food and company. ![]() When she is summoned to a remote island to inventory the house and estate of the late Colonel Jocelyn Cary, she takes it as an opportunity to head north and get out of the city, hoping for an industrious summer of cataloguing.Ĭolonel Cary left many possessions behind, but no one warned her about the bear. With nothing and no one to go home to, she resigns herself to passionless sex on her desk with the Institute’s Director. ![]() She lives a mole-like existence, buried among maps and manuscripts in her dusty basement office. Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. ‘A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with the same disturbing resonance.’ – Margaret Atwood ![]()
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