Mrs S

‘A striking queer romance in which lust yields subtle revelations about sexual power and selfhood’ Guardian ‘There’s nothing else like it out there’ The Times ‘Bold and beautiful… Desire crackles through these pages like fire’ Telegraph ‘Atmospheric and daring’ Guardian ‘Entirely captivating… Patrick’s staccato sentences… [become] a secondary language for butchness, powerful and confident’ New York Times ‘Compulsively readable, subtle, beautiful, brilliant on gender and queerness, girlhood, bodies’ Observer ‘[A] subtle, scintillating novel’ TLS ‘Brilliant and sexy… It should be on everyone’s summer reading list’ iNews ‘A highly charged tale of desire and obsession’ Marie Claire ‘A tense, often funny tale of lust and longing’ Literary Review ‘Embraces and then toys with our expectation of the lesbian romance… Spare and direct’ London Review of Books ‘Bold, uncompromising… Remarkable’ Daily Express 'So seductively and intelligently observed that its pulse continues long after the final page’ Sarah Winman, author of Still Life ‘A languorous slow-burn and a moving reflection on queerness’ Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under the Sea ‘Moody, generous and brilliant’ Jessie Burton, author of The House of Fortune ‘Tense, taut and exhilarating’ Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually ‘Crisp and beautiful’ Amy Key, author of Arrangements in Blue ‘Hot!’ Joanna Walsh, author of Vertigo ‘Astonishing’ Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl ‘Beautifully crafted and uncannily accomplished’ Rupert Thomson, author of Never Anyone but You ‘Taut with anticipation’ Lillian Fishman, author of Acts of Service ‘Wildly sexy, brave … An erotic classic through a bold modern lens’ Charlotte Mendelson, author of Wife 'Scorching … One of our favourite reads' TimeOut