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English Animals

Laura Kaye

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'A beautiful and bold debut' M.J. Hyland, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted Carry Me DownA funny, subversive and poignant debut novel from an exciting new writer.

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' GuardianEnglish Animals is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian will love. When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple, and a way of life that is entirely alien to her. Richard and Sophie are chaotic, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind to Mirka, despite their argumentative and turbulent marriage.Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise, taxidermy, and soon surpasses him in skill. After a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hall. But when she tells Sophie that she is gay, everything she values is put in danger and she must learn the hard way what she really believes in.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:
9780349142197
Published Date:
7/9/2017
Dimensions:
197mm x 127mm x 24mm
Weight:
256g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780349142197


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