![]() ![]() The way they could overturn an empire for a girl on bended knee.’ It was not until she began interviewing her subjects that she noticed that, while the stories of men all seemed to adhere to the same pattern, women’s stories were tantalisingly oblique when a woman spoke of desiring a man, it was almost never (or never just) the man himself that she wanted. Luckily, she was also gathering material for a novel, Animal, a book teeming with the rage, frustration and drama so lacking in the debut. ‘I thought I’d be drawn to the stories of men. ![]() In the prologue to her first book, Three Women (2019), a work of non-fiction exploring the structures and expressions of desire, Lisa Taddeo writes that she had not initially intended to focus on women. Animal by Lisa Taddeo is a novel full of violence, sex, and power struggles. ![]()
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