Send Nudes: By the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2022

Saba Sams' debut collection, Send Nudes, is a powerful and acclaimed work of fiction that explores the complexities of girlhood through ten dazzling stories. It has received numerous awards and accolades, including the Sunday Times Paperback of the Year, Granta Best of Young British Novelist, and Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022. The book has been selected for Stylist's Books You Can't Miss in 2022 and has received praise from notable figures in the literary world. Sams' writing has been described as exhilarating, fresh, wry, sharp, raw, and tender, and her stories deftly chart the treacherous terrain of growing up. With striking wit, originality, and tenderness, Send Nudes celebrates the small victories in a world that tries to claim each young woman as its own.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 19 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too quickly, yet not quickly enough; taking possession of what one can, while being taken possession of; succumbing to societal pressure but also orchestrating that pressure.

These young women are feral yet attentive, fierce yet vulnerable, exploited yet exploitative. Threading between clubs at closing time, pub toilets, drenched music festivals and beach holidays, these unforgettable short stories deftly chart the treacherous terrain of growing up - of intense friendships, of ambivalent mothers, of uneasily blended families, and of learning to truly live in your own body.

With striking wit, originality and tenderness, Send Nudes celebrates the small victories in a world that tries to claim each young woman as its own.

Weight: 160g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526621795