English Animals

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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.
I took off my belt and moved between the seats to look. We were at the top of a big hill. Below were squares and diamonds of green and brown fields all the way to the sunset.

Then I saw the house. It was more perfect than the one I had been dreaming about. A red cube in the middle of the land, like someone threw a dice.

I could not believe that I was going to live there. 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. English Animals is a funny, subversive, poignant and beautifully written novel about a doomed love affair, a certain kind of Englishness and prejudice.
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Weight 0.256000
Author Kaye, Laura
Availability IP
Department Literature
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780349142197
Pages 368
Published 07/09/2017
Publisher Abacus
Section Literature
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