Sharp The GuardianExcellent GlamourDarkly funny Harpers BAZAARChaotic The SkinnyAmelia is no stranger to sex and death.Her job as a cosmetic mortician at her familys funeral parlour might be unusual but shes good at it. When it comes to meeting people who are still breathing she uses dating apps. Combining with someone elses body at night Amelia can 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 seventytwohour 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 even more about sex, death, grief and the different ways pain works its way through the body. Itll take a pair of fathers, a bruising encounter wiht a stranger and recognition of her own bodys limits to bring Amelia back to herself.Wise and heartbreakingly funny, Ella Baxter&rsquos New Animal is a stunning debut.Selfdestructive antiheroines are in vogue, but what Amelias story makes clear is how underrepresented female sexuality still is. &ndash The Telegraph, The Four best Debut Novels to ReadTheres a compelling quality to Amelias honesty that recalls Raven Leilanis Luster or the sexaddicted eponymous narrator of Lela Slimanis Adele. The Irish Times

Binding: Paperback;240 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FA; Weight: 298 g; Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 17

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