A Kind of Intimacy, By Jenn Ashworth

Annie is morbidly obsese, lonely and hopeful. When she moves into her new home, she brings little else but her cat, Mr Tips, and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs.

As she chats to us through her house-move, it's easy to warm to her seemingly sunny personality, but as her neighbour Neil, and his gorgeous girlfriend, Lucy, soon find out, she's a creature of super-charged malice and sexual menace.

In this delightfully over-the-top debut novel, Jenn Ashworth describes a monstrous young woman just normal enough not to be entirely written off.