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Fragile Animals

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Pub Date 25 Apr 2024 | Archive Date 23 Jun 2024

General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction | Romance

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Description

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past.

Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her Catholic upbringing, hotel cleaner, Noelle, travels to the Isle of Bute. There, she meets a man who claims to be a vampire, and a relationship blooms between them based solely on confession. But as talk grows sacrilegious, and the weather outside grows colder, Noelle becomes hounded by memories of her past – her blasphemous sexuality, and the love she lost while stuck in the closet; of her mother’s affair with the local priest, and the part she played in ending it.

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past.

Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her...

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Advance Praise

"Gorgeous and gothic" - i-D

"A slick literary vampire novel to sink your teeth into. Hot!" - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

"To read Jagger's prose is to be riven; like the call of the ocean, one gazes into the story and becomes engulfed--Fragile Animals invites the reader into an awakening of the self which feels at once violent and immobilising" - Elle Nash, author of Deliver Me

"Shirley Jackson meets The Wasp Factory. Fragile Animals is bold, beguiling and breathtaking" - Carrie Marshall, author of Carrie Kills A Man

"Gorgeous and gothic" - i-D

"A slick literary vampire novel to sink your teeth into. Hot!" - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

"To read Jagger's prose is to be riven; like the call of the...

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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781912489961
PRICE £10.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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