5/19/2023 0 Comments English Animals by Laura Kaye![]() ![]() No more meal-time tantrums! Start to ENJOY family dinners again with these delicious 20-minute ideas everyone will love Loose Women star Carol McGiffin is forced to quit the show in row over Covid conspiracy views after bizarre radio rant SHANE WATSON: Penny Mordaunt (and her brolly carriers) lead the fashion parade of Tory powerhouses at the Coronation Piers Morgan slams 'PATHETIC' Liverpool fans who booed God Save the King after the national anthem was drowned out ahead of Reds' 1-0 win All of them are equally bewildering to Mirka, and all play their part in this confident novel that engages with love, belonging, prejudice and, above all, quintessential Englishness. At the same time, Kaye conjures up other English rural types with perception and humour: the brooding gamekeeper, the village do-gooder, the expat who lives abroad while disparaging everything foreign, the homophobe. The seesawing emotional intricacies between the three are deftly handled. With breath-taking speed, Mirka becomes a better taxidermist than Richard. Their various businesses teeter on the brink of collapse. Richard and Sophie are chaotic, drunken and volatile. ![]() This is like nothing she has experienced before. When 19-year-old Slovakian immigrant Mirka becomes bored of working in Pret at Euston Station, she opts for a job as general assistant to a couple struggling with the upkeep of their small country house. ENGLISH ANIMALS by Laura Kaye (Little Brown £16.99) ![]()
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