Title: Ark baby
First published: 1998
Description: Five years have passed since a mysterious millennial downpour spread infertility throughout the land. As the Fertility Crisis deepens, veterinarian Bobby Sullivan has other things on his mind - he's on the run after following a husband's orders to exterminate a monkey named Giselle, his wife's cherished baby-substitute.

Sullivan finally stops running and opens his veterinary office in a small coastal town, only to learn he has not really escaped - the town is haunted by the Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, whose life is directly linked to the evolution of events confounding Sullivan in the modern world. As a century and a half of logic, religion, magic and science connect, two men, three women and Queen Victoria's entire bestiary are catapulted into a wild and explosively funny farce.
Subjects: Fiction, Human-animal relationships, Veterinarians, Infertility, Evolution, Extinction (Biology), New York Times reviewed, Great britain, fiction, Veterinarians, fiction, Fiction, general
LC classification: PR6060.E55 A85 1998