We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The London Magazine, and Debutiful.
One of Oprah Daily’s “Best New Books to Read This Spring.”
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.
“Ferociously good debut . . . its gloriously individual voice makes this standout first novel glow with vigor and hope.”
—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
“Dazzling debut . . . We don’t know the last book that captured teenage girlhood and female friendship this deftly.”
—Oprah Daily
“This lacerating, exhilarating debut novel . . . manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will probably read nothing else like it this year.”
—Catherine Taylor, The Guardian
“A brilliant portrait of female friendship, nearly the equal in honesty and subtlety to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)