Penance

It's been years since the horrifying murder of a teenage girl in a northern seaside town. In this mock true crime story, Eliza Clark constructs Interviews with witnesses, family and correspondence with the killers themselves. the result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil - but how much of it is true?

Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell's Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television. A stage adaptation of Boy Parts will premiere at Soho Theatre in October 2023.