
'A joy to read' Amanda Craig' Shades of Cold Comfort Farm Charming' Guardian English Animals is a subversive wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian will love When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple & a way of life that is entirely alien to her Richard & Sophie are chaotic drunken frequently outrageous but also warm generous & kind to Mirka despite their argumentative & turbulent marriage Mirka is swiftly commandeered by Richard for his latest money-making enterprise taxidermy & soon surpasses him in skill After a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia Mirka finds to her surprise that she is happy at Fairmont Hall But when she tells Sophie that she is gay everything she values is put in danger & she must learn the hard way what she really believes in