Review
'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
Review
Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power. -- Jessica Andrews
Boy Parts is a carnival funhouse ride: terrifying, feverish, hilarious. Clark has created a wholly original monster and a sickeningly compulsive novel. I absolutely inhaled this book. -- Julia Armfield
An impressive, fiercely current debut... delightful and addictive. - i
Hilariously sardonic . . . Will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror. - Guardian
As hilarious as it is grotesque. - Another North
Explores the darkest corners of artistic practice, sexuality and violence with bold wit and fearlessness. A dazzling, horrifying debut. - Irish Times
A funny and intensely readable spiral staircase down into the mind of a woman who wears a waist trainer under her clothes and who may or may not be a keen purveyor of ultra-violence. - VICE
The main protagonist will prove to be one of the most alluring, infuriating, and complex characters in modern British literature. -- Niall Griffiths
Smart, stylish and very funny, Boy Parts is a gripping and unflinching exploration of female desire, narcissism, sexuality and rage. You won't want to put it down. -- Lara Williams
Boundaries are for breaking and if anyone can crash through and reinterpret the fear of our time, Eliza Clark can. - Mslexia
It's delightfully and deviously rooted in the now with its delectable internet and culture references and evocative and real-feeling portrait of women. - Dazed
It is a work of consummate professionalism, excellent plotting and pacing, with utterly believable dialogue. Her characters can be monstrous, but their lives could quite easily be our lives. The book is a corrective. - Manchester Review of Books
The most deliciously grim book I've read for a while. - Severine
An assured and complex debut that tempts and teases you always a little deeper, your eyes unable to be drawn away. - Lunate Fiction
Even at its most transgressive, it all feels effortless. Dark, funny, bold, it's an exceptional debut. - The Skinny
Book Description
The incendiary first novel from critically-acclaimed author Eliza Clark - 'an impressive, fiercely current debut' i
About the Author
Eliza Clark has relocated from her native Newcastle back to London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. In 2018, she received a grant from New Writing North's 'Young Writers' Talent Fund'. Her debut novel, Boy Parts, was released by Influx Press in July 2020, and it has since been Blackwell's Fiction Book of the Year. In 2022, Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five, and she was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023.