A Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2023 The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur
C. Clarke Award¿winning author of The Animals in That Country. A family of cat farmers gets the
chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship
ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men. With her
trademark humour energy and flair McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume
reality where childhood restarts where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk
like humans. The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways showing the world
both as it is and as it could be.
