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New Animal
- Narrated by: Maddy Withington
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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New Animal
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Publisher's Summary
Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist.
Harpers BAZAAR UK Best Books of 2022.
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022.
The Millions Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2022 Book Preview.
New Animal is a poignant, darkly comedic look at human connection from a biting and original new voice in Ella Baxter.
Amelia Aurelia is approaching 30 and her closest relationships - other than her mother - are through her dating apps. She works at the family mortuary business as a cosmetic mortician with her eccentric step-father and older brother, whose throuple’s current preoccupation is with what type of snake to adopt. When Amelia’s affectionate mother passes away without warning, she is left without anchor. Fleeing the funeral, she seeks solace with her birth-father in Tasmania and stumbles into the local BDSM community, where her riotous attempts to belong are met with confusion, shock, and empathy.
Hilarious and heartfelt, New Animal reveals hard-won truths as Amelia struggles to find her place in the world without her mother, with the help of her two well-intentioned fathers and adventures at the kink club.