K Patrick is a writer based in Glasgow. Their poetry has appeared in Poetry Review and Five Dials, and was shortlisted for The White Review Poetry Prize in 2021, the same year that K was shortlisted for The White Review Fiction Prize for their short story “Eggs”. In 2020, they were runner-up in the Ivan Juritz Prize and the Laura Kinsella Fellowship. Mrs. S is their debut novel.
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October 1-8
Join author K Patrick, named by Granta Magazine one of this decade’s Best of Young British Novelists, on the U.S. tour for Mrs. S.
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“A striking queer romance in which lust yields subtle revelations about sexual power and selfhood.”
— The Guardian, Jun 5 2024![]()
“Mrs. S ticks all the boxes of what makes a novel great, and K. Patrick has a very distinct writing style that is crisp and powerful.”
— United by Pop, Mar 17 2024![]()
“The novel is erotically charged and textured. It produces a vocabulary for homosexual desire, making visible the nature of power that comes into play with gender.”— Deccan Herald, Feb 17 2024![]()
“I just want to sit inside the sweaty sentences of the novel over and over.”
— Autostraddle, Dec 30 2023![]()
“A smoldering tale of obsession, queer desire and forbidden love.”
— NBC Out, Dec 22 2023![]()
“A story of power, bravery and ultimate choices.”
— Gay Times, Dec 15 2023![]()
“An atmospheric slow burn of a novel...a story of utmost yearning in the sense of queer desire, the attempt to understand one’s self, and a simple longing to be understood.”— Electric Literature, Dec 7 2023![]()
“In July...I read Mrs. S by K Patrick...That was a great month of reading.”
— The Millions, Dec 6 2023![]()
“A fever dream of intimacy and a hazy nightmare of yearning.”
— The Michigan Daily, Dec 6 2023![]()
“A taut, spunky, and fiercely original exploration of queer sexual and personal discovery.”— Oprah Daily, Nov 8 2023![]()
“Some of the best writing about infatuation and obsession I've come across...Mrs. S asks readers to consider the ways we inhabit bodies, how we inhabit our bodies.”— The Rumpus, Jul 20 2023![]()
“A sly rewriting of Charlotte Brontë's boarding-school romances.”— The New Yorker, Jul 11 2023![]()
“A striking queer romance in which lust yields subtle revelations about sexual power and selfhood...it marks the author out as a distinctive new talent.”— The Observer, Jul 10 2023![]()
“A sapphic period piece from K. Patrick.”— The Austin Chronicle, Jun 30 2023![]()
“K. Patrick's mesmerizing debut, Mrs. S, is atmospheric and disorienting in the most effective way...This is a writer to watch.”
— Shelf Awareness, Jun 30 2023![]()
"Patrick’s poetic, at times elliptical prose style is perfect for building erotic tension.”— Chicago Review of Books, Jun 28 2023![]()
“Patrick’s staccato sentences add a layer of choppy, additional drama to the text. It becomes a secondary language for butchness, powerful and confident; flowery description unnecessary.”— The New York Times Book Review, Jun 20 2023![]()
“K Patrick has said of Mrs. S that ‘I just had this impulse to write a horny lesbian novel.’ They have absolutely succeeded at that aim—the granular, finely-worked detailing of longing, fantasising and consummation is wonderfully lascivious.”
— The White Review, Jun 7 2023![]()
“Exciting... Seduction and intrigue abound in this page-turning story about forbidden love.”— Chicago Review of Books, Jun 1 2023![]()
“A thrillingly evocative debut from a superb young writer...5/5 stars.”— The Telegraph, May 31 2023
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