K Patrick

An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist ‘I loved this book’ — JULIA ARMFIELD ‘Exhilarating’ — MONICA HEISEY ‘Astonishing’ — ANDREA LAWLOR ‘Should be on everyone's summer reading list’ — iNEWS ‘Scorching … One of our favourite reads’ — TIME OUT A Guardian Essential Summer Read A sensual debut novel of the forbidden love...

An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems. These are notes towards a contemporary queer experience...