Boy Parts

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with 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 taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.


"The main protagonist will prove to be one of the most alluring, infuriating, and complex characters in modern British literature." - Niall Griffiths

"Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration of gender, class and power." - Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater

"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, author of Supper Club

"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, author of Salt Slow

"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

"An assured and complex debut that tempts and teases you always a little deeper, your eyes unable to be drawn away." Lunate Fiction

"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

"As hilarious as it is grotesque." --Another North

"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, author of Supper Club

"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, author of Salt Slow

"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

"An impressive, fiercely current debut... delightful and addictive" - i Newspaper

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

"Explores the darkest corners of artistic practice, sexuality and violence with bold wit and fearlessness. A dazzling, horrifying debut" - The 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

"Even at its most transgressive, it all feels effortless. Dark, funny, bold, it's an exceptional debut." – The Skinny

"A debut cocksure enough to grind the tropes of a certain kind of contemporary literary fiction like an exhausted dimp beneath its killer heels." --Northern Soul Best Reads of 2020