"Since the year all British women became infertile, Bobby Sullivan's London veterinary clinic has been packed with primate 'children' and, speaking as an alpha male, he's sick to death of them. Hoping to reincarnate himself, he moves north, but finds there is no escape from the Darwinian imperative - or from the sexual pull of the luscious twins Rose and Blanche. As the legacy of the girls' ancestor, Victorian freak Tobias Phelps, begins to connect with a century of history, religion, and evolutionary theory, new hope looms for the nation's future. Pointing the finger of destiny firmly at Bobby ..."

This is a very strange book! Luckily it manages to be amusing and enjoyable at the same time.
In Victorian London, we meet Dr Scrapie, Queen Victoria's taxidermist, along with his wife "The Laudenum Empress" and his daughter Violet.
At the same time in Northumberland a baby is found in a church and adopted by the vicar and his wife.
Fast forward to 2005 and all British women have become sterile since the millennium causing many to adopt primates as child substitutes. Following an unfortunate incident with a monkey called Giselle, a vet changes his name and runs away to Northumberland where all our threads start to come together.

Left on the charity book table in Outpatients 2.