Animals
Emma Jane Unsworth
Animals
Emma Jane Unsworth
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Sometimes friendship is the only true love story . . . Now a major new film starring Holliday Grainger
I wish I had written this book . . . Withnail with girls
Savagely funny, clever and wise. If it's not an instant cult classic I'm leaving the cult
Hilarious, moving and poetic
Animals is a riot. A kind of drunker, swearier Girls. I loved it
[A] wham-bam, helter-skelter account of female friendship, featuring two women in their early thirties whose voracious appetite for wine makes Dionysus look like a lightweight
A hilarious, madcap meditation on grown ups who are not quite ready to grow up. Her writing is as brilliantly inventive as her characters' transgressions
Brutally funny and heartfelt. I loved it
A devilish tale, spun in angelic prose
Stunningly brilliant
Casually high on insight, mercifully low on decorum, Animals is vital, funny, poignant and true. If you're looking for talent, style and the deep wisdom of misbehaviour, read it
A gloriously over-the-top account of female friendship
A fresh, albeit slightly fevered, depiction of female friendships and modern femininity in which traditional romantic entanglements take second place
It's not exactly subtle, but there is an irrepressible energy and verve to Animals, a veracity to Unsworth's no-bullshit prose and her main characters' barfly pseudo-philosophising, that makes the whole thing crack along like a Friday night pub crawl. Laura and Tyler are such engaging characters that it's hard to read Animals without cracking open a bottle of wine and joining the madness
Animals beautifully navigates the complexities of intimate relationships. Never cloying or mawkish, it communicates vulnerability, dependence and tenderness, often in a single dazzling line
A speedy, exciting tale of female friendship
Gloriously debauched and wonderfully touching...a gripping, raucous read from one of Britain's most promising young writers
This is a book that will make you laugh and make you think. It's a story about friendship and growing up, and the fun that can be had and the shit that you sometimes have to leave behind
What also makes Animals so fresh - apart from Emma Jane Unsworth 's lovely turn of phrase and ability to resuscitate the worst hangover you've ever had - is just how filthy these girls are
Animals looks like a New Order record, its narrative fuelled by cheap white wine, the non-logic of the always-intoxicated and the sensuously evocative language of a writer who's been there....but it's ultimately a sobering and tender read
Unsworth is a name to watch . . . Animals is more than a hymn to partygoing - it is a sharp study of the endurance of female friendship over romantic entanglements and life's challenges...alternately bleak and comic, Animals gives us the pain of the morning after the night before in all its unvarnished awfulness
Unsworth is a bright talent
Told through wild nights and the chaos of life as a thirty-something, this ode to female friendship is number one on my summer reading wish list
Like a riotous, careening night out, full of laughter and absurd details, this book marks its authors as a tremendous talent
Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything. Her short story 'I Arrive First' was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. In 2019, the film adaptation of Animals, starring Holliday Grainger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She lives in Manchester.
I wish I had written this book . . . Withnail with girls
Savagely funny, clever and wise. If it's not an instant cult classic I'm leaving the cult
Hilarious, moving and poetic
Animals is a riot. A kind of drunker, swearier Girls. I loved it
[A] wham-bam, helter-skelter account of female friendship, featuring two women in their early thirties whose voracious appetite for wine makes Dionysus look like a lightweight
A hilarious, madcap meditation on grown ups who are not quite ready to grow up. Her writing is as brilliantly inventive as her characters' transgressions
Brutally funny and heartfelt. I loved it
A devilish tale, spun in angelic prose
Stunningly brilliant
Casually high on insight, mercifully low on decorum, Animals is vital, funny, poignant and true. If you're looking for talent, style and the deep wisdom of misbehaviour, read it
A gloriously over-the-top account of female friendship
A fresh, albeit slightly fevered, depiction of female friendships and modern femininity in which traditional romantic entanglements take second place
It's not exactly subtle, but there is an irrepressible energy and verve to Animals, a veracity to Unsworth's no-bullshit prose and her main characters' barfly pseudo-philosophising, that makes the whole thing crack along like a Friday night pub crawl. Laura and Tyler are such engaging characters that it's hard to read Animals without cracking open a bottle of wine and joining the madness
Animals beautifully navigates the complexities of intimate relationships. Never cloying or mawkish, it communicates vulnerability, dependence and tenderness, often in a single dazzling line
A speedy, exciting tale of female friendship
Gloriously debauched and wonderfully touching...a gripping, raucous read from one of Britain's most promising young writers
This is a book that will make you laugh and make you think. It's a story about friendship and growing up, and the fun that can be had and the shit that you sometimes have to leave behind
What also makes Animals so fresh - apart from Emma Jane Unsworth 's lovely turn of phrase and ability to resuscitate the worst hangover you've ever had - is just how filthy these girls are
Animals looks like a New Order record, its narrative fuelled by cheap white wine, the non-logic of the always-intoxicated and the sensuously evocative language of a writer who's been there....but it's ultimately a sobering and tender read
Unsworth is a name to watch . . . Animals is more than a hymn to partygoing - it is a sharp study of the endurance of female friendship over romantic entanglements and life's challenges...alternately bleak and comic, Animals gives us the pain of the morning after the night before in all its unvarnished awfulness
Unsworth is a bright talent
Told through wild nights and the chaos of life as a thirty-something, this ode to female friendship is number one on my summer reading wish list
Like a riotous, careening night out, full of laughter and absurd details, this book marks its authors as a tremendous talent
Emma Jane Unsworth is a journalist and won the Betty Trask Award for her novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything. Her short story 'I Arrive First' was included in The Best British Short Stories 2012. In 2019, the film adaptation of Animals, starring Holliday Grainger, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She lives in Manchester.