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Some friendships are wild at heart...Now a major new film starring Holliday Grainger.'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?''Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies. But things are set to change when Laura gets engaged to the man of Tyler's nightmares. Can their friendship survive? Or will growing up mean growing apart?'An utterly triumphant ode to female friendship'Elle'Animals beautifully navigates the complexities of intimate relationships. Never cloying or mawkish, it communicates vulnerability, dependence and tenderness, often in a single dazzling line . . . Like a riotous, careening night out, full of bellowing laughter and absurd details, this is a book you'll be talking about for years to come. It marks Unsworth as a tremendous talent'Kerry Hudson,Guardian'What makes this novel so fresh are the unexpected turns the story takes and the vividness, urgency and idiosyncratic panache of Unsworth's writing'New York Times'Animals is a riot. A kind of drunker, swearier Girls. I loved it'Matt Haig'Hilarious, moving and poetic'Glamour'A gloriously over-the-top account of female friendship'Guardian