Animal opens with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head of an unrequited lover and becomes a road-trip to California, centring on a woman who is driven to kill by the violence of her past. It recalls the work of James Ellroy, Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh, Emma Cline and David Lynch, told with the pace and bite of a Stephen King novel. A compulsive thriller from Lisa Taddeo, author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon "Three Women".