Gunk by Sams, Saba
Gunk by Sams, Saba

Gunk

An electrifying first novel from "a fresh new voice in fiction" (Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling...
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Author: Saba Sams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Gunk by Sams, Saba

Gunk

$91.99 $48.00
Gunk by Sams, Saba

Gunk

$91.99 $48.00
Author: Saba Sams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
An electrifying first novel from "a fresh new voice in fiction" (Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest), the story of two women circling one another--working side-by-side, sleeping with the same man, inching toward friendship--until an unplanned pregnancy reveals the true nature of their connection.

Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works with 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. In the early hours of the morning, she trudges home to sleep alone. But then Leon hires eighteen-year-old Nim to work the bar with Jules--Nim, with her shaved head and steady pour, her disarming sweetness and sudden distance--and Jules finds herself jolted awake. When Nim discovers she's 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 she's coming back. What could the future--for Jules, Nim, and this unnamed baby--possibly look like?

Raw, surprising, tender and wise, Gunk is an exhilarating debut novel exploring love and desire, safety and destruction, chaos and control-- and family in all its forms.

Author: Saba Sams
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.44w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780593804995


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Booklist 12/01/2025
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026

About the Author
SABA SAMS has an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Stinging Fly, and The White Review. She was selected for Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023 and The Sunday Times' Young Power List in 2025. She was raised in Brighton and now lives in London. Gunk is her first novel.
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