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**Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize****Finalist for the Nota Bene Prize****Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times, independent.co.uk, Vogue and Marie Claire****Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times, independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95**Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain’s brightest debut novelist VogueAn immersive story about love and the softening borders around what family can be Sheena Patel’A joy to read’ The Times An intimate and tender exploration of love’s possibilities Sophie Mackintosh’Raw, powerful and beautiful’ ObserverA nuanced exploration of friendship, queerness and love Jessica AndrewsI loved this Nicola DinanJules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for ­five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind the bar, as Leon flirts with students on the dancefloor.But then Leon hires nineteen-year-old Nim to work the barand her arrival jolts Jules awake for the ­ first time in years. When Nim discovers shes pregnant, Jules agrees to help. As the months pass, and the relationship between the two women grows increasingly intimate and perplexing, it emerges that Nim has her own unexpected gifts to give.Now, alone in her small flat, Jules is holding a baby, just twenty-four hours old, who still smells of Nim. But no one knows where Nim is, or if shes coming back. What could the futurefor Jules, Nim, and this unnamed babypossibly look like?Raw, exhilarating, tender and wise, Gunk is an electrifying debut novel exploring love and desire, safety and destruction, chaos and controland family in all its forms.