Psssshhhhhht. I ducked as a jet of fine mist shot towards my face from the automatic air freshener on the medicine cabinet. I shook the remaining water off my hands and stepped to the other side of the bathroom.
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Animals
Emma Jane Unsworth
If you’ve ever had a friend who brings parties to life, turns drab evenings into parties, and is an all-around liability, you’ll see yourself in Laura, the protagonist of Animals. Broke and working in a call center in Manchester, she’s forever torn between the opposed interests of the two people closest to her: her alarmingly wild roommate Tyler and her straightlaced fiancé Jim. But before you can write off Animals as a romcom about leaving behind the bad habits of your twenties in order to become a Real Adult who gets married and lives happily ever after, it takes a number of twists and turns to end up someplace the reader and Laura don’t expect.
With her knack for compulsively readable dialogue, Emma Jane Unsworth vividly evokes the best parts and worst aspects of being young and aimless and living for nights out with a friend who’s sometimes literally a partner in crime. And if you’ve always wished you could read early Martin Amis and experience pure pleasure rather than gagging on misogyny every few lines, we’re delighted to introduce you to your new favorite novel.
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About the Author
Emma Jane Unsworth
Emma Jane Unsworth lives in Manchester. She is also the author of Hungry, The Stars and Everything.
You know how it is. Saturday afternoon. You wake up and you can’t move.
I blinked and the floaters on my eyeballs shifted to reveal Tyler in her ratty old kimono over in the doorway. ‘Way I see it,’ she said, glass in one hand, lit cigarette in the other, ‘girls are tied to beds for two reasons: sex and exorcisms. So, which was it with you?’
— Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals