July's book pick

Everything you need to know about July's book club pick📚

Hey friends,

On Monday we took to our Instagram stories with a poll to decide on our read for July…

🥁 drumroll please 🥁

You went for Boy Parts by Eliza Clark!

We can’t wait to get stuck into this and see what you think!

Here’s a little more about the book…

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle.

Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention…

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.

Join the next book club meeting

Our next online book club will be on Sunday the 28th of July at 10:30am (a link to join will be shared to paid subscribers in the chat). We spend an hour chatting about the book, exploring everything from the characters, themes and interesting author interviews. We’d love to have you join us to hear your thoughts on Boy Parts…

Reminder to join the chat for all the latest updates

One final thing…

The chat is where we’ll be sharing all of the useful links, info and ways you can get involved.

If you haven’t downloaded the Substack app yet, we definitely recommend this, so you can pop into the chat whenever. If you prefer the desktop version of Substack, that has access to the chat functionality too.

Speak soon,

Mollie & Jodie x