![]() As he navigates their sexually fraught encounters, he is forced to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness – and to consider his return to life – half the stories circle this trio as they work it out on their own terms. Charles and Sophie’s relationship is difficult to read but Lionel is drawn to them both. Recently discharged from hospital, Lionel meets two dance students at a party. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, a young man tentatively engages with the world again. ![]() The book won ‘The Story Prize’ 2022 you can really see why. Taylor seems to write about the huge things in life, but really, it’s the tiny things which resonate, and the prose captures those personal flickers in beautifully flowing sentences which offer backstory, insight and a smile at his fearless flair with words. ![]() This is humid book, I could feel the heat rising Taylor keeps their narrative beat and keeps it strong, it’s relentless in the best pounding way, Driving the reader on through the stories as they writhe on the page and echo the characters writhing. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strange and unfamiliar ways, but we see ourselves reflected back, and our desires squint back at us too. This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. ![]()
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