Susie is introduced to love and animals rights by her teacher, Mr Lamour, her innocence is taken from her and she grapples with life's complexities. By exploring a girl's charged relationship with her teacher, this provocative, intense, and finely written novel keeps throwing up questions about responsibility, love and cruelty that remain challenging to the last.
Are ants animals? Do rabbits like lipstick? Are dogs really human beings? Is it better to be a dead mouse or a dead baby? How can a cow or a sheep be a grass-machine? Should a girl fall in love with her English teacher? If you wanted to sabotage a rodeo, how would you go about it? Is there a difference between cutting up a worm for fun and for science? If meat is just grass recycled, does that make meat-eaters vegetarians by proxy?
