She's Always Hungry (sampler)

I absolutely loved this short peek at She's Always Hungry. Eliza Clark is one of the best, most engaging and singular writers around. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a sneak peek!

Eliza Clark is one of my favourite authors so I was so excited to receive this sample. Can’t wait to get my hands on the full version of this intriguing short story collection!

So thankful to receive this little sample short story from Eliza Clark's new collection. I love love adore obsess over Boy Parts and Penance so cannot wait until this comes out so I can read the rest.

This sample was so bizarre but I need to know more!! I really loved Penance and was delighted to hear Eliza Clark was back, can’t wait to get my hands on the full version of this intriguing short story collection!

This title is one of the short stories from Clark's upcoming She's Always Hungry. I absolutely loved this weird little story! Told through JustEat reviews for a Chinese-Italian takeway, this story is inventive and strange and totally compelling. Consider me hyped for the full book in November.

I love Eliza Clark and her writing in this is exceptional yet again! Dark humour, clever prose, just perfection.

I can’t wait to actually read the full book! This is only one excerpt from the novel - rather than the whole book. So it definitely left me leaving more.

Love Eliza, love the writing, hate that this is just an excerpt. I need the rest of the book immediately!!

I’m not usually a fan of short stories because they cut off right when you’re invested but for Eliza Clark, you make the exception, right?

Well, reader, it happened again, I got fully invested in the story and it ended, the excerpt ended and I wanted to continue reading the rest of the book. Except this time I’m not upset, I’m very excited for November 7th, when this releases so that I can devour this in its entirety!

Thank you so much to Faber & Faber for the chance to read this excerpt before the book is released! 🩷❤️ #NetGalley #ShesAlwaysHungry

Eliza Clark's debut short story collection promises to "plumb the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger", and I think it's kind of genius that the first and only story granted to us lucky few successful ARC applicants is this short and sweet little nugget, composed entirely of increasingly surreal online reviews for a Chinese-Italian fusion restaurant which may or may not exist, and which is almost certainly run by white/tan/blonde and beachy Australian cultists if it does. It's not as overtly dark as either of Clark's previous novels - both of which I've loved - but its absurdism and its ambiguity hint at darker things to come.

An amazing excerpt of Eliza Clark's next title - the short story is funny in its portrayal of the different characters' confused reviews, yet has an unsettling undertone and fantastical elements. Can't wait to read the rest!

I really enjoyed the short story excerpted from this book that was included in the download. It was masterfully written with a sense of mystery and unease, and the characters’ voices felt so real! I’m a big fan of this author and can’t wait to read the whole book!

The short story 'The Shadow Over Little Chitaly' is absolutely hilarious. Told through the form of confused and bewildered reviews it made me laugh out loud on the train. Cannot wait to read the full collection.

5 stars but i genuinely don't think it could be anything less. if this is indicative of the full book i am so excited for it. SOOOO disappointed though that this is not the full book...

This was an excellent short story, bizarre and eerie, compelling and moreish. I absolutely can't wait to get my hands on the full collection!

Weird, charming and intriguing. Everything I love about Eliza Clark. Can’t wait to read the full thing!

IM READY FOR THE WHOLE BOOK NOW. ELIZA CLARK NEVER FAILS!!!

Covers game = 100%
Title game = 100%
Writing game = 1000000%

Autobuy author who always lives up to my expectations

Excellent, original, very clever and very creepy. The story presents itself through a series of reviews (and some people review more than twice), throwing hints right and left about a mysterious takeaway place which combines Italian and Chinese cuisine. It's brimming with dark humor and cruel intelligence. I really hope this is inciative of the whole collection's quality - if so, we' ll have a masterpiece on our hands!

Eliza Clark still amaze me like the first time. With just a short and weird story Clark’s work I’ve remember the power of shorts stories and definitely shows her talent writing them. It let me wanting more!

I really enjoyed the sample short story that I read - The Shadow Over Little Chitaly. The format of the story was unusual, being told entirely through the medium of food delivery app reviews, but a strange and amusing picture gradually emerged.

I’d like to read the rest of the stories in the collection and am looking forward to publication in November..

'The Shadow over Little Chitaly'

Eliza Clark you never fail to amaze me. This short story is told through restaurant reviews for a peculiar takeaway spot called 'Little Chitaly', who seems to serve Italian/chinese fusion and delivered by an super speed Aussie dude. But as guests soon see, theres clearly a twist. Clark has such an authentic and engaging comic voice which ultimately pulls this whole text together. She is able to avoid the online writing cliche's by actually just being f*cking hilarious. ('They can suck my big clitaly' is a fave). You would wonder how she's able to create characters and a storyline through a bunch of restaurant reviews, and yet she does it! And it's fun!

Im SO ready to pounce on this when it comes out in November - im normally an avoider of short stories collection but i'm hooked already give me more!

As a big fan of Boy Parts, I knew as soon as I saw this I wanted to read it. The arc is one of the short stories; which is in the format of Google reviews of a mysterious 'Chitalian' (that's Chinese/Italian) fusion restaurant. In particular, one patron who keeps going back for more. Loved the format, very unique and unexpected, didn't know I would feel so creeped out from reading Google Reviews! I'm super intrigued to read the rest of these stories and can't wait for the book to release!

Omg so chilling! Read it so fast in one sitting and got myself scared to death.
Also funny because I’m italian and all the pizza references with wrong ingredients were soo funny