Eliza Clark is from Newcastle Upon Tyne and lives in London. Her debut novel Boy Parts was published by Influx Press in July 2020, and it has since been Blackwell’s Fiction Book of the Year. In 2023, Eliza was included in Granta magazine’s ‘Best of British Novelists list’, a once-in-a-decade list which hails the literary stars of the future.

Praise for Penance

“Eliza Clark is a genius with voice and a master of flipped expectations. Penance astonished me with its breadth, wit and confidence.”

– Julie Armfield

“It’s delightfully and deviously rooted in the now with its delectable internet and culture references and evocative and real-feeling portrait of women.”

– Dazed Digital