Boy Parts

From the author of SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY and PENANCE

A Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2023

Includes the short story GOTH GF

"Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp." — Jessica Andrews

"Will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror." — Guardian

"A carnival funhouse ride: terrifying, feverish, hilarious." — Julia Armfield

Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested in drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. When she's offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery which promises to revive her career in the art world, it should feel like an escape. But the news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, drawing in her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention...

BOY PARTS is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboos of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.

"Smart, stylish, and very funny." — Lara Williams

"Boundaries are for breaking and if anyone can crash through and reinterpret the fear of our time, Eliza Clark can." — Mslexia

What readers are saying:

"A dark, funny, nasty book. Brilliantly written, annoyingly good." — 5* reader review

"I am obsessed." — 5* reader review

"Both shocking and darkly funny, this razor-sharp debut is unlike anything I've read before." — 5* reader review

"I loved this, properly loved it!!" — 5* reader review

"Left me both in awe and totally disturbed. Wow." — 5* reader review