Animals Eat Each Other
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:10th Dec '26
£11.99
This title is due to be published on 10th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'A desire map, a cartography of eros... A heartbomb' - Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan
In 2005, a young woman with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mum. She begins to recognise the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife's edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing isolation of the present.
With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self that accompanies it.
A desire map, a cartography of eros. Two women and a man weave their contradictions and obsessions and aches into one another until names, bodies and selves dissolve and reconstitute in ways they could not have imagined. Mirrorings, doublings, triplings and reproductions bring the right questions to the surface: who are we when we enter into love stories? Does anyone know? A heartbomb -- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan
Animals Eat Each Other reminds me of the 80s, with its Satanism and ménage à trois teen lifestyle and atheism in the face of mass Christianity. Nash has written a novel you can't put down, even if the Satanic Bible or a deck of Tarot cards is within your reach -- Elizabeth Ellen, author of Fast Machine
Nash writes with psychological precision, capturing Lilith's volatile shifts between directionless frustration, self-destructiveness, ambivalence, and vulnerable need. A complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire * Publishers Weekly *
A gem of a novel about desire and relating, yearning, fucking, and fucking up. Also a little bit about Satan but don't let that put you off. Let it put you on -- Rhik Samadder
ISBN: 9780857307040
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176 pages