She's Always Hungry (US edition)

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. 

About the Author

Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell's Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under 35. In 2023, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television. 

Reviews

"She's Always Hungry is a howlingly good collection by an author at the very height of her powers. By turns funny, repulsive, and tender, it is a collection that begs you to pick a favourite story and yet confounds you at every turn with its range and dexterity. Clark is a writer whose mastery of voice and genre is impossible not to envy." —Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rites

“A delectable smörgåsbord of snack-sized weird, She’s Always Hungry is a meal for the most avant garde queens. I loved every story, licked the plate clean and left no crumbs.”  —Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

"Scary and satirical, Clark's debut collection is unsettling, repulsive and darkly hilarious." —Juno Dawson, bestselling author of Her Majesty's Royal Coven

"Visceral and transgressive, eerie and playful, sometimes depraved and often laugh-out-loud funny." —Colin Walsh, author of Kala

Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.3 x 20.4 cm