Spoilt Creatures

Fierce and unapologetic, Spoilt Creatures is an intoxicating debut that pulls back the skin of the patriarchy and examines the female rage that lies beneath. They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. When Iris--newly single and living at home with her mother--meets the mysterious and beguiling Hazel, who lives in a women's commune, she finds herself drawn into the possibility of a new start away from the world of men who have only let her down. Here, at Breach House, the women can be loud and dirty, live and eat abundantly, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan matriarch, Blythe. But is Breach House truly the haven it seems? And just how much can Iris trust her new family? When an unforgivable transgression threatens the commune's existence, Iris and the other women find themselves hurtling toward an act of devastating violence.

Amy Twigg was born and raised in Kent, England, and now lives in Surrey. When her debut, Spoilt Creatures, was published in the UK in 2024, Amy was selected as one of The Observer's Best New Novelists. The novel also won the Blue Pencil Agency (BPA) Pitch Prize and was longlisted for BPA's First Novel Award and the Mslexia Novel Competition. Amy is an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. Blackstone will publish her second novel, Milk, Bread, Teeth, in January 2027.