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From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and prize-winning author of Property comes a riveting story of three women in New Orleans who must face the repercussions of sex, betrayal and the wilder side of human nature. • “Haunting…. An utterly compelling work of fiction.” —The New York Times

Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical:Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband’s decision to leave her after twenty years,finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarianat the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on by a series of contemptuousmen, experiences bizarre episodes in which she feels herself transforming into oneof the great cats in her Elisabeth Boyer, a passionate Creole aristocrattrapped on her husband’s antebellum plantation, finds deliverance in the form ofa black leopard, a powerful, merciless ally from the wild. Their unfolding storiesblur distinctions of time, class and social construct to reveal the ordinary andextraordinary measures required to make our fractured world whole.