Send nudes : stories / Saba Sams.

Tenderloin -- Overnight -- Snakebite -- Send nudes -- Flying kite -- Here alone -- The mothers and the girls -- Blue 4eva -- The bread -- Today's square.

A motherless teenage girl, daughter of the town butcher, falls into a relationship with a much older boy, but realises she'd rather have the love of his dog. A directionless university student is taken up by beautiful, chaotic party girl Lara, who moves right into her bed and slowly destroys her life. An uneasy holiday in paradise for two reluctant stepsisters turns into a war of attrition as they compete for the affections of a charismatic interloper. Dragged along by their mums to a music festival, two teenage girls pursue experience over the course of one weekend. Strange and arresting, dirty but shining, the girls of Saba Sams's extraordinary debut collection traverse girlhood and womanhood in all its glorious complications. Negotiating absent mothers, intense friendships, wanting and fearing being desired, her characters are brought to life with striking wit, originality and tenderness.