Böcker av Naomi Booth

Esther lives in the Pennines with her father. She is obsessed with experimenting with ways to pass out: from snorting Daz powder to attempted autoasphyxiation in a serviced apartment in north London. But what happens when you take something too far? And what has Esther's mother, a beautiful dancer wasting away in her bedroom, to do with it all?

A woman feeding a baby late at night listens to the animal sounds in the city around her. A grieving widow encounters an injured jellyfish on a deserted beach. A young woman can''t shake the image of the dying hare she finds at the side of the road. A dairy farmer hears her herd bellow with fear at night. ''Animals at Night'' is Naomi Booth''s first collection of short stories. Collected here are stories that illuminate the strange nocturnal meetings between humans and other animals.

Callum has been given an opportunity: Jozsef's house is the perfect place to live. All that Jozsef asks in return is for some company while he's ill and the promise that someone will be there to help him at the end. It's fortunate then, when Callum meets Lauren who works in Human Resources and specialises in getting rid of people.