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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 21st century.

©2020 Eliza Clark (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Dark Humour Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Psychological Women's Fiction Fiction Witty Scary Comedy Funny
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Usually audiobooks narrated by the author suck but this was perfect execution. Loved everything anout this book

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Comparisons to Bret Easton Ellis are unfair. This book has so much more depth, heart and subtlety than American Psycho. A bullseye depiction of the grey area where trauma and sociopathic traits connect. And witty, and funny, and a time capsule of the late 20teens, and heartbreaking too. I hope this marks the start of a long literary career for Eliza Clark.

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A firm favourite read of the year so far.

Dark, hilarious, shocking, and grotesque with an unhinged and thoroughly unlikable protagonist you can’t help but love to hate.

The author’s dry narration suited the character so perfectly and, being from the North of England myself, it was so refreshing to hear a regional accent and really added to the story for me.

Newcastle’s answer to Bateman

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This book was brilliantly disturbing. Listening to this in 2023 some of the dialogue is a bit cringey but it is appropriate from the time (and maybe sometimes intentional), especially for being Eliza Clarks first book (I believe). Often made me wonder if the author has something wrong with her with the level of disturbing scenes the book had, but they are well written and performed and gave the book a great uniqueness. Being from Newcastle myself it had a special place in my heart which may have made me a bit bias. If you enjoyed this please check out Eliza’s new book Penance it is absolutely brilliant and captivating.

Brilliantly disturbing.

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Not what I was expecting (much better) and Eliza Clark narrates her novel brilliantly — I think hearing her tone and her take on the rhythm of the prose massively increased my appreciation and enjoyment of the book.

Funny, rude, brilliantly read

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