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Bloomsbury presents Animal by Lisa Taddeo, read by Emma Roberts.

'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her’ Elizabeth Day

'So insanely good and true and twisted it’ll make your teeth sweat' Olivia Wilde

'Like a series of grenades exploding' Marian Keyes

I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig.

That’s a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man.

Do you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way.

I am depraved. I hope you like me.

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A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian – Sunday Express – Independent – New Statesman – Evening Standard – Cosmopolitan – Red – Grazia – Daily Mail – Daily Express – The Week – Irish Times – i – The Sun

©2021 Woolloomooloo, LLC (P)2021 Simon & Schuster Crime Thrillers Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Scary Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt
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The narrative is seamless, a book I wanted to never end. Characterisation so finely tuned.

One of the most astonishing books of 2021

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The raw and ugly truth of what it means to be a woman in a man's world, dressed in well executed fiction. Not for the faint of heart, hard to stomach and absolutely bingeable - like a raw cooked steak oozing blood at a fine restaurant.

Raw, brutal, perfect.

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it's a tough book to read, it's slow for most of it but damn is it worth it.
A story of a woman's struggle with her relationship to men and her connection with other women.
Parts may be triggering, shocking and down right disgusting but I found overall the story to be wonderful.
somehow the author made it feel so real, I was her, I went through those events and now I just want to hug my Mum.

keep going

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Enjoyed the book. Good portrayal of feminine rage and love. The narrator's pronunciation of certain words was quite off putting. "Shone" kept being pronounced as "shown." strange!

Good book, weird pronunciation

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I consumed the whole thing in 48 hours straight. d
Devastating, addictive, brutal and brilliant!

Addictive.

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