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How to be humanPaula Cocozza

How to be human

Paula Cocozza
2017320 pages
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"From Guardian writer Paula Cocozza, a debut novel of the breakdown of a marriage, urban claustrophobia, and a woman's unseemly passion for a fox. One summer's night, Mary comes home from a midnight ramble to find a baby lying on her back-door step. Has Mary stolen the baby from next door? Has the baby's mother, Mary's neighbor, left her there in her acute state of post-natal depression? Or was the baby brought to Mary as a gift by the fox who is increasingly coming to dominate her life? So opens How to Be Human, a novel set in a London suburb beset by urban foxes. On leave from work,…

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7 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2017
    Viking · 320 pages · 9780143199229
  • Other · English · 2018
    Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9780099510772
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Random House · 9781786330338
  • Other · English · 2017
    Holt & Company, Henry · 9781250129260
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Random House · 9781786330345
  • Other · English · 2017
    Penguin Random House · 9781473537583
MarriageFictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, family lifeMarriage, fictionFiction, family life, generalFICTION / LiteraryMarriage -- Fiction