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English Animals by Laura Kaye5/13/2023 ![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £14.44 go to or call 03. The result, if not particularly urgent, is undoubtedly charming.Įnglish Animals by Laura Kaye is published by Little, Brown (£16.99). Laura Kaye (laurakaye) Fandoms Marvel Cinematic Universe (21) due South (17) Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Rating details 1,001 ratings 135 reviews When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple, and a way of life that is entirely alien to her. If never quite taking off, this aspect of the book rumble along gently in the background, and Kaye has a keen eye for social observation – a scene of multiple polite “Afternoons” between passing dog walkers had me chuckling. Though my debut novel English Animals is in many parts a satire, I have recently moved away from this towards something. Shades of Cold Comfort Farm – Mirka goes to work in a large rural house, home to eccentric drunks Sophie and Richard – meet more contemporary concerns, namely immigration and a snobbish type of English bigotry. cheated-on wife on its head' Laura Kaye, author of English Animals 'A taut and lyrical novel about cosily calibrated lives coming spectacularly undone. This odd creation is the perfect metaphor for English Animals, a rather strange beast all of its own. ![]() ![]() T owards the end of Laura Kaye’s debut, her heroine, Mirka – a Slovakian lesbian trying to build a new life in England – visits a taxidermy shop in London’s East End, and finds “a cat with the wings of a white bird”. ![]()
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