Animals

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Animals is narrated by Laura. She lives in Manchester, England, with her American best friend Tyler. Laura and Tyler have been partners in crime for ten years, drinking liberally and doing lots of drugs. The two women love to party and exist in an insular world of just the two of them. Except now Laura is in her early thirties, working a job she hates while writing a novel that's going nowhere. A bright spot in her life is her fiancé Jim. But Tyler sees Laura's impending marriage as a betrayal of all they stand for. And with Jim disapproving of their hard partying ways, Laura is unsure of what she really wants. In my mid-twentIes I had a best friend. It was one of those heady relationships that makes you feel you’re constantly in the sunshine – even in Manchester, where we both lived at the time. I lit up when I was around her. She made me grow.

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I absolutely LOVED reading this book. It's smart, laugh out loud funny, vulgar, surprisingly tender when it comes to love and quite thought provoking in moments of our Yeats-spouting narrator's drug and alcohol fuelled epiphanies.Really enjoyed the style of writing, and found parts of it incredibly relatable (in a bad way). If you have been a teenager/university student in the UK then the drinking culture and relentless going out portrayed here along with the things Tyler and Lo get up to may hit a bit close to home, albeit a bit more extreme than my own experience. Marsh, Walter (28 March 2019). "Sophie Hyde on Animals, nostalgia and letting friendships die". The Adelaide Review . Retrieved 29 March 2019. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Bury-born Emma is building up quite a reputation for opening up discussions about ‘taboo’ issues that are rarely spoken of. And, to make it worse, nothing specific has triggered such a life changing moment, other than the fact you’ve both drifted apart.

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There was a feeling that I was not doing well and was being left behind. I started investigating that.”Lodge, Guy (29 January 2019). "Sundance Film Review: 'Animals' ". Variety . Retrieved 7 April 2019. Listening to your favourite songs, chatting with your closest pals and reading advice columns can perhaps help you along the way.