She's Always Hungry

A Guardian and Dazed Book of the Year 'You'll love every story, swallow them whole and lick the plate clean.' Alice Slater 'No one is writing like Eliza Clark.' Nicola Dinan 'Eleven surreal, troubling and frankly gross little worlds. How I loved my time in them.' Saba Sams 'Visceral and transgressive, eerie and playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny.' Colin Walsh 'I gobbled them up in one sitting.' Camilla Grudova Visceral, speculative body horror from the author of BOY PARTS and PENANCE - the first collection from a major voice in British fiction A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated? Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger. 'A firecracker of a book.' Guardian What readers are saying: 'Eliza Clark's writing is phenomenal . . . I cannot recommend this enough.' 'Effortlessly blends hilarity and devastation, terror and joy . . . Clark is one of the best writers of our time.' 'Enticing, disturbing and unputdownable . . . a must read.' 'Truly exceptional . . . it delights and terrifies simultaneously.'

A Guardian and Dazed Book of the Year 'You'll love every story, swallow them whole and lick the plate clean.' Alice Slater 'No one is writing like Eliza Clark.' Nicola Dinan 'Eleven surreal, troubling and frankly gross little worlds. How I loved my time in them.' Saba Sams 'Visceral and transgressive, eerie and playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny.' Colin Walsh 'I gobbled them up in one sitting.' Camilla Grudova Visceral, speculative body horror from the author of BOY PARTS and PENANCE - the first collection from a major voice in British fiction A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Each of these characters has a desperate desire. Can any of them be sated? Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humour, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger. 'A firecracker of a book.' Guardian What readers are saying: 'Eliza Clark's writing is phenomenal . . . I cannot recommend this enough.' 'Effortlessly blends hilarity and devastation, terror and joy . . . Clark is one of the best writers of our time.' 'Enticing, disturbing and unputdownable . . . a must read.' 'Truly exceptional . . . it delights and terrifies simultaneously.'

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW " BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024" From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW " BEST HORROR FICTION OF 2024" From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta 's Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection. A woman welcomes a parasite into her body. A teenager longs for perfect skin. A scientist tends to fragile alien flora. A young man takes the night into his own hands. Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.