Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one anothers lives to devastating effect.
Both impossible to put down and beautifully written: a great combo -- Lionel Shriver * Observer Books of the Year *
An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in crisis.. Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can do. Beautiful Animals is his most accomplished book so far -- a big, clever, crazed beast of a novel -- Deborah Levy * Financial Times *
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 * New York Times Book Review *
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 * 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 *
Spare, subtle… brilliantly achieved -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
Osborne is interested in what his characters do when events are wrested out of their control, his narratives unfurling like a set of carefully lined-up dominoes… It’s exciting for sure, but cuts closer to the bone than Osborne’s previous novels and is all the more distressing and depressing for it -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Superlatively gripping… Osborne plunges his characters far from the luminescent surface and into the darkest depths -- Anita Sethi * i *
An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in crisis.. Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as only great writers can do. Beautiful Animals is his most accomplished book so far -- a big, clever, crazed beast of a novel -- Deborah Levy * Financial Times *
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 * New York Times Book Review *
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 * 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 *
Spare, subtle… brilliantly achieved -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
Osborne is interested in what his characters do when events are wrested out of their control, his narratives unfurling like a set of carefully lined-up dominoes… It’s exciting for sure, but cuts closer to the bone than Osborne’s previous novels and is all the more distressing and depressing for it -- Lucy Scholes * Independent *
Superlatively gripping… Osborne plunges his characters far from the luminescent surface and into the darkest depths -- Anita Sethi * i *
Lawrence Osborne is a critically acclaimed novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is the author of eight novels, including Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals and The Forgiven. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, The Naked Tourist and The Wet and the Dry. His novels have been chosen as Books of the Year by the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, The Economist, the New Yorker and the New York Times. The Forgiven was made into a film in 2022 starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes and Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton was released on Netflix in 2025.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784700379 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784700371 |
| Title | Beautiful Animals |
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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