Author
Amy Twigg
Amy Twigg was born and raised in Kent, England, and now lives in Surrey. Her debut novel, Spoilt Creatures, was published in the UK in 2024 and earned her recognition as one of The Observer's Best New Novelists. The novel also won the Blue Pencil Agency (BPA) Pitch Prize and was longlisted for both the BPA First Novel Award and the Mslexia Novel Competition.
Her novels include Spoilt Creatures and Milk, Bread, Teeth, both now published in the U.S. by Blackstone Publishing. Her fiction explores the unsettling intersections of identity, obsession, and the body through a distinctly literary horror lens.
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SPOILT CREATURES
A haunting literary horror novel about queer desire, radical sisterhood, and the terrifying cost of belonging.
Praise for Spoilt Creatures
“A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage.”
“Lush and dreamlike—a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread.”
“A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods—haunting and exhilarating.”
“A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage.”
“Emma Cline’s The Girls meets Lord of the Flies…compelling, cultish, and utterly feral.”
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.
MILK, BREAD, TEETH
A visceral work of femgore that unravels body image, inherited trauma, and an appetite that can never be satisfied.
Praise for Milk, Bread, Teeth
“Gluttonous, audacious and altogether a delectable work of genius."
Blackstone Publishing
Milk, Bread, Teeth
Milk, Bread, Teeth, Amy Twigg's electrifying new novel, is a work of literary body horror in the vein of Nightbitch and Milk Fed, with the dark social critique of The Substance.
Lena's body is no longer her own. It is occupied by a growing appetite, a hunger that demands to be fed. From inside her luxury apartment, Lena tries to appease it gorging herself, day and night. Whole loaves of bread, protein shakes-tins of cat food if all else fails.
When Joan, an actress on the cusp of stardom, moves into the apartment above, Lena is quick to make friends. She soon finds herself in Joan's orbit enjoying the trappings of wealth and privilege, the kind she has always pined for. But with the hunger demanding more and more, Lena's carefully constructed image of herself starts to unravel. And as her appetite veers into the inedible, she must fight to remember who she is.
Milk, Bread Teeth is an unflinching exploration of dissatisfaction and disparity, a deliciously grim and transgressive tale that draws the reader into a frenzy of insatiable desire and consumption. It's a propulsive, eerie novel inspired by Amy's experiences with chronic illness and her place in publishing as a working-class woman.