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Bloomsbury is to publish Lisa Taddeo's first novel, Animal, next summer.
Associate publisher Alexis Kirschbaum acquired UK & Commonwealth rights to Animal from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown, on behalf of Jennifer Joel at ICM.
The novel centres on Joan, a woman seeking revenge for the violence of her past. Described in the synopsis as a "dark, ingenious, thrilling novel about female rage and desire", the novel opens with "a self-inflicted gunshot to the head of an unrequited lover and unfolds as a road-trip to California".
Kirschbaum said: "Animal is like nothing I’ve ever read: stylish, brazen, sexy, totally new, and a work of tremendous talent. I am so excited for everyone to meet Joan next year."
Taddeo said: "When women do mad things, they are called unhinged, sociopaths. When men do the same types of things, they might be called warriors. But there are reasons we go 'crazy', and it is often because someone else has driven us there. I wrote Animal to explore the cause and effect of female rage, and why, as a society, we feel more comfortable diagnosing madness than we do believing in unliveable trauma."
Animal is scheduled to publish on 22nd July. Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster that launched with the publication of Taddeo's bestselling non-fiction title Three Women in July last year, is to publish in the US.
Taddeo is currently adapting Three Women for a television series with Showtime. The book has sold over 100,000 copies through Nielsen BookScan's UK TCM, across all editions.