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New Animal
- Narrated by: Maddy Withington
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s funeral parlour, doing make-up on the dead, might be unusual, but she’s good at it. Life and warmth comes from the men she meets online - combining with someone else’s body at night in order to become something else, at least for a while.
But when a sudden loss severs her ties with someone she loves, Amelia sets off on a 72-hour mission to outrun her grief - skipping out on the funeral, running away to stay with her father in Tasmania and experimenting on the local BDSM scene. There she learns more about sex, death, grief and the different ways pain works its way through the body.
It takes two fathers, a bruising encounter with a stranger and recognition of her own body’s limits to bring Amelia back to herself.
Deadpan, wise and heartbreakingly funny, Ella Baxter’s New Animal is a stunning debut.
Critic reviews
"Ella Baxter’s debut novel is drenched in sex and death...there’s also much love.... An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale." (Sydney Morning Herald)
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-02-23
loved
unique, dark, powerful
lack of consent in the ‘better’ bdsm group is a bit of a problematic depiction
first & last chapters written beautifully
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- Fossil
- 15-11-23
Dark, gritty and real
This book is incredible. I need time to process, but it is loud, not afraid of going to some dark places and unapologetic about the less talked (and often grim) parts of the human (female) experience. Don’t expect a nicely packaged and well put together protagonist, but do expect a powerful narrative with visceral language that grips you from the start and makes you feel very uncomfortable.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-05-23
Let me down
This let me down really… was expecting more darkness and what was sold as a main plot point ended up being a sideline story .. also ended v abruptly and left me feeling unfulfilled
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