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Animals, Emma Jane Unsworth

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Animals

906010661

Emma Jane Unsworth

You know how it is. Saturday afternoon. You wake up and you can't move. I blinked and the floaters on my eyeballs shifted to reveal Tyler in her ratty old kimono over in the doorway. 'Way I see it, ' she said, glass in one hand, lit cigarette in the other, 'girls are tied to beds for two reasons: sex and exorcisms. So, which was it with you?' Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angrily philosophising and leading each other astray in the pubs and flats of Manchester. But things are set to change. Laura is engaged to teetotal Jim, the wedding is just months away, and Tyler becomes hell-bent on sabotaging her friend's plans for a different life. Animals is a hilarious, moving and refreshingly honest tale of how a friendship can become the ultimate love story

White piss good; amber piss bad -- Girl versus night -- The return of Jim -- Home not home -- It's my fucking wedding -- The cowpat and the psychiatrist -- An inspiring encounter that causes our hero to sleep under a bush -- The importance of questions -- To London! -- Near-death in a subterranean bar -- First light -- Two friends -- You can't handle vermouth -- Bandits -- Buskers -- The mastery of avoidance -- Laura and Tyler flee north -- I can resist everything except metafiction -- Infinity stretches away equally in all directions -- It was an old night -- Cruel parodies -- Ball bearings -- Six months later