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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“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![]()
"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![]()
“I was hypnotized by this ecstatic, erotic debut, written, it seems, in such a way as to remove everything possible to get closer to an experience of pure want... It is the first contemporary novel I have read in recent memory that I feel tempted to compare to Virginia Woolf.”— Literary Hub, May 24 2023![]()
"Gorgeous...Mrs. S consists of mostly short, clipped sentences that still allow for the sumptuousness of a clandestine affair to sneak in, building in suspense of the will-they, won’t-they variety."— Vulture, May 17 2023![]()
“Mrs. S is a novel in which a different kind of love—self-acceptance—conquers all.”— Foreword Reviews, May 1 2023![]()
★ “Patrick’s deft manipulation of narrative time and use of interior monologue to describe the tensions among thought, intention, and action recall the work of Virginia Woolf... An erotic yet high-minded literary achievement.— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review), Apr 25 2023![]()
“Patrick makes palpable the compromises required by secret love, and though the romance is aching and well crafted, what emerges above all is a fascinating character portrait, that of a woman obscure to the world but radiant inside.”— Publishers Weekly, Mar 22 2023
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