A woman challenges biology and convention in her struggle for freedom: a multi-voiced enquiry into the frontier between humans and animals. 

To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a lifeshe cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, and questions its limits, by exploringhow humans relate to animals. Rosenthal weaves an intricate pattern, combining thecentral narrative with many other voices - vets, farmers, breeders, trainers, a butcher - to produce a polyphonic composition full of fascinating and disconcerting insights.Wise, precise, generous, To Leave with the Reindeer takes a clear-eyed look at thedilemmas of domestication, both human and animal, and the price we might pay tobreak free.

'This polyphonic novel portrays a merciless war waged by humanity on wild nature. This is the battleground where the author tears to pieces today's education, imposed behaviours and conventions.' - Elle (France)

'Olivia Rosenthal's book is like the chimerical animals she lists on the first page. It is a hybrid, a strange and disconcerting cross: a sphinx of a book, half-human, half-beast.' - Les Inrockuptibles

'Poetic and humorous, To Leave with the Reindeer explores our illusions, the destruction of our childhood dreams and the savagery that we hide deep within ourselves.' - Tlrama