The debut novel from the award-winning author of the smash hit Send Nudes: an electrifying
exploration of motherhood found family and second chances Jules has been divorced from her
ex-husband Leon for five years but she still works alongside him at Gunk the grotty student
nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching from
behind the bar as Leon flirts with students on the dancefloor. In the early hours of the
morning she paces home to sleep. But then Leon hires nineteen-year-old Nim to work the bar
with Jules - Nim with her shaved head and steady pour her disarming sweetness and sudden
distance - and Jules finds herself jolted awake. When Nim discovers she's pregnant Jules
agrees to help. As the months pass and the relationship between the two women grows
increasingly intimate and perplexing it emerges that Nim has her own unexpected gifts to give.
Now alone in her small flat Jules is holding a baby just twenty-four-hours old who still
smells of Nim. But no one knows where Nim is or if she's coming back. What could the future -
for Jules Nim and this unnamed baby - possibly look like? Raw exhilarating tender and
wise Gunk is an electrifying debut novel exploring love and desire safety and destruction
chaos and control - and family in all its forms.
_________________________________________________________ Praise for Saba Sams 'Sams is the
real deal ... Sensual witty audacious belligerent dangerous brilliance' LUCY KIRKWOOD
GUARDIAN 'A bold new talent' STYLIST 'I can't wait to see what she writes next' PANDORA SYKES
'An instinctive storyteller attuned to the ordinary details that make up a life' NICOLE
FLATTERY 'An extraordinary talent' MINNIE DRIVER
