❤️COVER REVEAL❤️
We're happy to share the cover for STRANGE GIRLS by @sarvathasin !
Two estranged friends who are forced to reunite over one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart.
"Intimate yet mysterious, STRANGE GIRLS is a tense and enthralling portrait of a relationship that resists definition: friendship, romance, sisterhood." –Mikkaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, authors of The View Was Exhausting
Publishing in the US on 3/10/26 and in the UK through @dialoguepublishing on 3/12/26. Preorder your copy through the link in our bio!
We’re still buzzing from our first Book & Supper Club and it’s VERY exciting that we have the brilliant novelist, Sarvat Hasin, up next!
Join us for a delicious three course Pakistani meal, to discuss Sarvat’s latest book, Strange Girls📚
You don’t need to have finished the book, just bring yourselves and your curiosity.
We’ll enjoy a seasonal menu inspired by the novel, explore its themes together, and talk about ambition, friendship, rivalry, and everything in between.
And Sarvat herself will be joining us for the conversation, sharing insights and answering your questions in person.
Feel free to come solo or with a friend. You’ll leave with your cup filled; with good food, new ideas, and people who love stories just as much as you do 🤍
Link in bio. Tag someone who needs to be here.
#bookclub #supperclub #bristolevents #booklovers #readingcommunity strangegirls sarvathasin howyoufindyourvoice
We're delighted to announce novelist Sarvat Hasin in conversation with Rachel Ashenden at Rare Birds, Edinburgh, to discuss her new novel STRANGE GIRLS.
STRANGE GIRLS is a stunning novel about creativity, longing, and all the words left unsaid. What happens to a love story that has nowhere to go, and who has the right to tell it?
Link to book in bio.
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A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. Aliya has everything Ava wants – a room of her own and a publishing deal – and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend’s hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history and what they meant to each other.
Aliya and Ava first met in the halls of their historic campus with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Their connection was electric. They created a world of their own through the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other work. But when the end of university loomed, the real world began to pull them in opposite directions. Was their bond ever truly as strong as they thought? And what would become of the stories they told themselves about each other?
Weaving together their past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of youth, and the scars left when they break.
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Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book You Can’t Go Home Again was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India’s and The Hindu’s best of the year lists. Her third novel The Giant Dark (Dialogue Books, Hachette UK) won the Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. She lives in London.
Rachel Ashenden is a writer and editor based in Edinburgh, with bylines in ArtReview, Plaster, The List and others. She is the Art Editor of The Skinny and a Commissioning Editor for Art UK. @rachel.ashenden
I’m very excited to share our next Book & Supper Club author and book!
We’ll be joined by the brilliant author, Sarvat Hasin for an evening of food and conversation around her latest novel, Strange Girls.
Strange Girls is a novel about an intense and ambiguous female friendship that begins at university and continues to shape both women’s lives long after it ends. Spanning two timelines, it traces both the beginning and the breakdown of that relationship.
It’s a coming of age novel about creative ambition, female friendship and friendship breakups. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I read it! And I think it’s going to be a really juicy book to talk about at the supper club.
Tickets via the link in bio.
A ‘Most Anticipated Book of 2026’ — DAZED, The New Arab, Lit Hub
The Book & Supper Club is part book club, part dinner party. The idea is that you read the book before, come and join in a shared feast, meet some other bookish types and have a good chat about the book. And the best bit about it is the author’s there too, so you can ask them all about their creative choices and writing process. You don’t need to have finished the book to come along.
Each time, we’ll share a seasonal menu, created by chef, Shona Graham and inspired by the novel. The culinary theme of this one will be the flavours of Pakistan.
See you there! Tag someone who would absolutely love this. Link in bio.
#howyoufindyourvoice #bookclub #supperclub #femalefriendships #bristolevents
Book now for Intimate Collaborations with Sarvat Hasin & Ana Kinsella
Two fresh talents discuss love, artistic agency, and the intoxicating intensity of creation, collaboration, friendship and youth depicted in their novels: Sarvat Hasin’s Strange Girls and Ana Kinsella’s Frida Slattery As Herself.
📅 Saturday 16 May
🕰️ 4pm
🎫 Link in bio
(PT) Foi um prazer receber Sarvat Hasin para o lançamento do seu novo livro, Strange Girls. Um agradecimento especial a todos os que apareceram e à Angelique Neuman por conduzir a conversa. Strange Girls está disponível, tanto na loja como online.
(ENG) It was a pleasure to host the book launch for Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin. Special thanks to all who showed up, and Angelique Neuman for hosting the evening. Strange Girls is out now, and available for purchase both in store and online.
(PT) Junta-te a nós este domingo, dia 19 de abril, às 15h, para o lançamento de Strange Girls, de Sarvat Hasin. A autora irá conversar sobre o seu processo criativo e os temas centrais do romance, intensidade, intimidade e amizade, com a poeta e editora Angelique Neumann. Após a conversa haverá uma sessão de perguntas e respostas e de autógrafos.
(ENG) Join us this Sunday, April 19th, at 3 p.m. for the launch of Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin. The author will discuss her process and the novel’s overarching themes of intensity, intimacy, and friendship with poet and editor Angelique Neumann, followed by a Q&A and signing session.
Sarvat Hasin’s brilliant new novel STRANGE GIRLS is officially out today and so we were thrilled when she came in to share her #FoylesFour!
Here’s what she chose:
—The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
—The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
—White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
—The Country Without A Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali
STRANGE GIRLS is a stunning novel about creativity and the intensity of friendship, and you can catch her in conversation with Julia Armfield tonight to celebrate—tickets at the link in our bio!
#FoylesBookshop #SarvatHasin #StrangeGirls #NewFiction
Read an excerpt of STRANGE GIRLS, the US debut from @sarvathasin over at @debutiful ’s website.
STRANGE GIRLS is about two estranged friends who are forced to reunite over one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart. It is available from @duttonbooks now!
Happy pub day to STRANGE GIRLS by @sarvathasin ❤️🔥
Take a look into the traits of the characters from the book. Who do you relate to the most?
"In this irresistible U.S. debut....Hasin crafts an intriguing story full of ambitions, jealousy, and homoerotic female friendship that readers will not be able to shake free from." —Booklist
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