Description
Amelia works at her family’s funeral parlour as a cosmetic mortician—until her nights begin to blur the line between the dead and the living. Using dating apps and a strange, intimate ability to “combine” with someone else’s body, she turns desire into a temporary escape, even as grief keeps tightening its grip. When a sudden loss severs her connection to someone she loves, Amelia flees on a seventy-two-hour mission that takes her from skipping the funeral to seeking refuge with her father in Tasmania, where she confronts sex, death, and the body’s limits in darkly funny, unsettling ways. With a sharp, candid voice and a taste for chaotic emotional honesty, this debut explores themes of female sexuality, mourning, self-destruction, and how pain moves through the body—both as sensation and as survival. Equal parts bruising and compassionate, it’s a story about what it means to come back to yourself when escape stops working.
Available Editions
paperback
Pan Macmillan
Published Feb 17, 2022
185 pages
ISBN: 9781529074826
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for New Animal by Ella Baxter.