PRAY ANIMAL is a modern re-working of Noah’s Ark set on a cruise ship and narrated by a flea with a singular destiny. Biting, visceral and often funny, Timna Fibert’s debut is an utterly original novel for our apocalyptic age.
PRAY ANIMAL begins at the end of the world. The restless flea embarks on a journey with an unknown destination alongside the world’s last animals and seven human couples from across the Earth.
Raging against God and wrestling with unrequited love, the flea roams the ship feasting on blood, an unseen voyeur as order turns to chaos around her. The flood covers the world outside and the humans, absorbed in their lusts and insecurities, must keep feeding themselves and the animals on the ship’s strange supplies, while they and the flea confront the mysteries of love and creation.
Timna Fibert is a writer and audio describer for the visually impaired. She read English at Oxford, where she published fiction and non-fiction and won an essay competition judged by Andrew O’Hagan and Margaret Drabble. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway and is the Winner of the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize 2023. Timna lives in London.
