Will there be an exchange of personalities? An empathic humanising of the one to parallel the beasting of the other? Or is some creepier, less sentimental Ovidian process under way? A town, the narrator’s father advises her, is “only as interesting as its bad apples and only as safe as its lunatics”, a contorted judgment that perhaps tells us more about Armfield’s preferences than about the events she is preparing to unfold. Inside a few pages, the narrator, destabilised by the marriage – not to say the lupine stepsister, who is known as Helen – has begun to let herself go or, strictly, go wild. Later, she marries the central character’s father, and brings the cub with her, clad in “a blue pinafore dress she described as its special occasions outfit”. “Formerly Feral” opens with a woman adopting a wolf cub.
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