Beautiful Animals: Osborne Lawrence - Softcover

"Let’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down" (Lionel Shriver Washington Post)

"Often almost literally bristling with menace... his Hydra is rugged with physical immediacy. Silhouetted against it, emotions fluctuate, sexual frissons flicker back and forth, destinies tremble in the balance... It’s the brilliance with which Osborne conjures all this up that leaves you eager to see where his nomadic imagination will take him next" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times)

"Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice... The novel takes on the tone of an existential noir, evoking writers like Jean-Patrick Manchette and Georges Simenon... An heir to Graham Greene... he shares with Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller" (Katie Kitamura New York Times Book Review)

"Complex and thrilling, Beautiful Animals confirms Osborne as one of Britain’s very best novelists" (Anthony Gardner Mail on Sunday)

"Beautiful Animals is terrifically well constructed, written with mean authority, brilliantly evocative about place ... A masterpiece of disaffection" (David Sexton Evening Standard)

CHOOSE YOUR HOLIDAY READ AS CAREFULLY AS YOU CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS...

'An heir to Graham Greene' New York Times Book Review

During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another’s lives to devastating effect.

When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.

Sinister and ravishing, Beautiful Animals tells the story of two worlds colliding. It exposes the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

'Like The Great Gatsby' New York Times Book Review