Lisa Taddeo Animal 2022 Bloomsbury 2022

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<p><b>'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her'</b> ELIZABETH DAY<br> <br> <b>'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat'</b> OLIVIA WILDE<br> <br> <b>'One of my favourite writers of all time'</b> DUA LIPA<br> <br> <b>'Like a series of grenades exploding'</b> MARIAN KEYES<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> That's a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another <i>married</i> man.<br> <br> Do you see how this is going? But I wasn't always that way.<br> <br> <b>I am depraved. I hope you like me.</b><br> <br> ------------<br> <b><br> A FINALIST FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2022</b><br> <br> <b>A 2021 Highlight for: <i>Guardian - Sunday Express - Independent - New Statesman - Evening Standard - Cosmopolitan - Red - Grazia - Daily Mail - Daily Express - The Week - Irish Times - i - The Sun</i></b></p>