**A Granta Best of Young British Novelist** **Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
2022** **Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2022** **Shortlisted for the Swansea
University Dylan Thomas Prize 2023** SELECTED FOR STYLIST'S BOOKS YOU CAN'T MISS IN 2022 - 'A
MUST READ' 'An exhilarating debut' GUARDIAN 'A fresh new voice in fiction wry and sharp
and raw' EMMA CLINE 'I still remember where I was when I first encountered a Saba Sams story'
NICOLE FLATTERY 'I fell for this stunning collection with a rare consuming passion' MEGAN
NOLAN ____________________________________________________________ In ten dazzling stories
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. _____________________________________________________________________ 'A roiling
raw gut-punch of a debut collection best read in one sitting ... I sat motionless for about
half an hour after reading them I can't wait to see what she writes next' PANDORA SYKES 'A
seriously impressive debut. Saba Sams digs into the chaos euphoria and menace of sexual
attraction friendship and family with bravery and wit' CHRIS POWER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE
2022 BY THE GUARDIAN STYLIST VOGUE GLAMOUR COSMOPOLITAN EVENING STANDARD IRISH
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