We’re pleased to announce that Little, Brown will be publishing Laura Kaye‘s brilliant debut novel, English Animals, in spring 2017.
English Animals is a funny, subversive, poignant and beautifully written novel about a certain kind Englishness, prejudice and a doomed love affair, told in a distinctive voice, and a contemporary setting.
When Miša gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a way of life that is entirely alien to her. The couple she is working for, Richard and Sophie, are chaotic and frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind to Miša, despite their turbulent marriage. Richard swiftly co-opts Miša into his latest money-making enterprise – opportunistic taxidermy – and she finds that she has a natural talent for creating some unusual artworks. After a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia, Miša finds to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hall. But when she tells Sophie that she is gay, everything she has come to care about is put in danger, and she must learn that hard way what really matters to her.
Laura Kaye is a brilliant observer of human nature, with a wonderful eye for detail and a wry wit who, in English Animals, balances poignancy and humour perfectly.
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