Fever of animals by Miles Allinson: 16 Feb, 2017

Miles has come to Europe on the trail of the Romanian surrealist who disappeared into a forest in 1967. In trying to unravel the mystery of Bafdescu’s secret life, Miles must also reckon with his own.

As he waits for someone who may never appear, Miles is chased by thoughts of his ex-girlfriend and the trip they took that ended their relationship. Fever of animals is, at its heart, a meditation on art and grief.

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Hi Miles ! I'm wondering where you end and where your character Miles begins? Would you say that the writing experience was any more immersive given that you have acknowledged that connected relationship up-front with the choice of your character's name?

Hi Hannah. Thanks very much for writing (are you my cousin?)

I would like to say that we are divided roughly in the middle and that he has the legs and that I have the arms, but that may not be precisely true. I think we are more like a turtle and that he is the hard shell and I am the soft inner jelly-like body.

But really, I'm only being partly silly. it's very hard to say, is the answer and part of the point of the novel is to for the reader to be caught in the middle.

I like your choice to divide horizontally rather than vertically ;)