Animals Eat Each Other

‘Elle Nash is one of the best writers alive’ - Juliet Escoria

In 2005, a young woman with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mum. She begins to recognise the dark undertow of obsession and jealousy that her presence has created between Matt and Frances, and finds herself balancing on a knife’s edge between pain and pleasure, the promise of the future and the crushing isolation of the present.

With stripped-down prose and unflinching clarity, Nash examines madness in the wreckage of love, and the loss of self that accompanies it.

** Also includes an exclusive excerpt from Nash’s novella, Gag Reflex **

‘Raw, moving and utterly original’ - PopSugar

‘A desire map, a cartography of eros… A heartbomb’ – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan

‘A savage, nuanced dive into the dynamics of queer sexuality, love and anti-love, jealousy, sadomasochism, Satanism and everything else caught in the fray of a woman’s self-abandonment. Nash’s subtly spare prose renders matter-of-fact what we’re so often afraid to articulate to ourselves, let alone to the people we give ourselves over to’ – Sarah Gerard, author of Sunshine State

‘Delicious, honest, electric and wild’ – Abigail Tarttelin, author of Dead Girls

‘If Holden Caulfield was the face of adolescence during Salinger’s era, then Nash’s Lilith represents the face of today’s youth as they struggle to come-of-age in a world where people are increasingly more and more alienated’ – Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, author of Fig

‘Nash writes with psychological precision... A complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire’ – Publishers Weekly

‘Electric, sensual and brutally human... An exquisitely crafted work’ - Medium

This novel contains depictions of an eating disorder, selfharm, suicidal ideation, BDSM and substance abuse.

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E-bog: 10. december 2026