Saba Sams

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Send Nudes by Saba Sams review – sex and solitude

This article is more than 4 years old

The earthy resilience and joie de vivre of these stories about being a young woman today make for an exhilarating debut

Madeleine Feeny

Idon’t know if I was enjoying myself or just in a continual state of curiosity,” says Meg in Snakebite, one of 10 short stories in 25-year-old British author Saba Sams’s exceptional debut collection. Sams joins the ranks of writers such as Megan Nolan and Frances Leviston with these acute portraits of the fragile intimacies and euphoric moments snatched by a generation of women coming of age into a precarious future.

 

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Green Dot by Madeleine Gray review – witty tale of obsessive love

This article is more than 1 year old

A young millennial begins an affair with her fortysomething boss, in a debut that’s nicely ironic while avoiding nihilism

Madeleine Feeny

Thu 1 Feb 2024

Why do smart women expect their lovers to leave their wives, despite overwhelming evidence that the contrary is more likely? Australian critic Madeleine Gray is the latest writer to explore this question, in an acutely witty debut that charts, in painful detail, the inexorable arc of an affair between a disaffected millennial and her older, married boss.