Beautiful Animals

Lawrence Osborne Hogarth €18.45 Naomi Codrington, a young lawyer, is spending summer on the Greek island of Hydra and simmering with resentment towards her father and stepmother; her only friend is Samantha, a malleable American teenager. When they find a Syrian refugee called Faoud washed up on the shore, they agree to shelter him; then Naomi decides to finance a new life for him by staging a robbery at her family’s villa. But the plan goes tragically wrong, and while Faoud flees to Italy, Naomi tries desperately to cover her tracks. Complex and thrilling, Beautiful Animals confirms Osborne as a terrifically talented novelist.