Critics raved after Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel,Animals, was published in the UK final year. The book focuses on a deep friendship between two unmarried, and underemployed tough-drinking young women,Laura and Tyler. Their friendship becomes threatened when Laura falls in love with Jim, a classical pianist, or Tyler and Jim pull Laura in different directions. It’s just been released in the United States in paperback,to critical acclaim.
Source: wnyc.org