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Lisa Taddeo is the author of Three Women, which she is currently adapting for a television series with Showtime, and Animal. Three Women was a Sunday Times and New York Times number one bestseller, the most-picked book of the year in the UK in 2019, the British Book Awards Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times Style magazine and has contributed to the Sunday Times, New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. She is one of a select few authors to have published both fiction and non-fiction in Playboy, alongside Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nabokov, Kingsley Amis and Norman Mailer, and she is also working on television projects with Netflix and Annapurna Pictures. She lives with her husband and daughter in New England.
Fearless . . . This summer's must-read literary thriller. The writer's skilful depiction of female rage amid a world of predatory men will have you laughing, crying . . . and unable to put it down * Evening Standard * Showcases Taddeo's dark imagination, confronting prose and vodka-dry humour . . . Taddeo is at her best when she's writing about female friendship, with all its fraught nuances * Red * Taddeo can deliver turns of phrase so perfect, they feel like they've been on the tip of your tongue for ever . . . When it comes to describing some of femininity's ugliest double binds, Taddeo is as brutal as the best of them. She is funny, too * i * Explores female desire and sexual power dynamics in a collection of stories that often feel shockingly true . . . Some readers will feel a shock of recognition - Taddeo has a knack for saying what women often feel they can't say aloud * Guardian * These nine stories from the bestselling author of Three Women and Animal simmer with poisonous energy . . . Candid and caustic, these portraits are bold, bleak and entirely believable * Daily Mail * Dizzying, dripping and highly addictive * Tatler * Devastating stories of women's pain, loss and compensatory behaviour. Taddeo is the 21st century's more excoriating Edna O'Brien * Spectator * I'd be jealous of Lisa Taddeo if I didn't love her so damn much * Refinery 29 *
