Saba Sams made waves with Send Nudes ... Now the 28-year-old author has written her first novel, about the bond between two women from different generations - and what happens when a baby arrives in the mix

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A fresh look at unconventional relationships and chosen family by the author of the award-winning story collection Send Nudes

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Gunk, the scuzzy nightclub. Gunk, the shining, beautiful novel. This exceptional exploration of love and possibility remained with me long after I'd finished reading

WENDY ERSKINE

A literary wunderkind ... Acutely observed and tight in focus

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An intimate and tender exploration of love's possibilities, of the shapes it can find and create inside people, of how it is always surprising us. Its's a novel both quietly devastating and shimmeringly, acutely, observed

SOPHIE MACKINTOSH

Compulsively readable, intelligent and strange, Gunk is a beautiful and original exploration of what it means to be in kinship with other people. This is a striking and special book

OISÍN McKENNA