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 timely in a completely original way.

'I was different. I was being called. I'm an exceptional flea, I remembered, which gave me courage. A yak bull passed above me, going towards the ship. I hopped into its fur [and] with veiled sight and a foghorn for a trumpet that I left the earth behind'

PRAY ANIMAL begins at the end of the world. Our restless Flea embarks on a journey with an unknown destination alongside the world's last animals and seven human couples from the Earth's diverse regions.

Raging against God and wrestling with unrequited love, our 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 our Flea narrator are forced to face 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.