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Gunk

by Saba Sams


  • Bloomsbury
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.

ISBN 9781526666482 | EN | TPB
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Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 9781526666482
Publication date May 2025
Edition Trade Pb
Dimensions mm
Pages 240
Language(s) English ed.
Description

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:

'An immersive story about love and the softening borders around what family can be' - Sheena Patel

'Sams is the real deal' - Lucy Kirkwood, Guardian

'A bold new talent' - Stylist

'I can't wait to see what she writes next' - Pandora Sykes