Strange Girls

Touching, infuriating and painfully true, Strange Girls is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read. – Julia Armfield, author of PRIVATE RITES
Another dreamy, hypnotic novel from Sarvat Hasin, a writer who is a consummate expert in evoking the sweetness and pain of nostalgia … Utterly gorgeous. – Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE
Simply sublime - about that feverish, feral first finding of true friendship that becomes all-encompassing and reforms who you are. – Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of THE DANCE TREE
Sarvat Hasin is a storming talent and Strange Girls is a beautiful and yearning read. – Daisy Johnson, author of EVERYTHING UNDER
Vivid, layered, and sharp, Strange Girls is a striking portrait that captures the messy, tense, and beautiful struggles where friendship meets longing. Sarvat Hasin has penned a novel profoundly tender and unrelenting. I envy whoever reads it next for the very first time. – Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB
Compulsive and all-consuming, Strange Girls charts the intoxicating waters of friendship where you are both seen too clearly and yet not at all. Hasin devastatingly evokes that fumbling age of identity construction, of finding meaning and purpose in another person when you fear there’s none you can find in yourself, at once lost yet entirely particular. I’m obsessed. – Kat Dunn, author of HUNGERSTONE
A wonder of a novel. Tender and keen-eyed, with characters so lifelike you could reach out and touch them. Hasin’s approach to storytelling remains singularly brilliant. I loved it. – Amy Twigg, author of SPOILT CREATURES
I absolutely ate Strange Girls up. Hasin writes fraught friendships, chaotic codependency and queer longing with consummate sensitivity and wryness. – Gráinne O’Hare, author of THIRST TRAP
A novel of rare clarity and insight, aching with a complex, deeply felt love. I was captivated and moved from the outset. – Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM
Luminous, tender and near mythic … This novel had its grip on my heart from the very first pages. – Freya Bromley, author of THE TIDAL YEAR
Strange Girls is a tense and enthralling portrait of a relationship that resists definition … Hasin writes love in all its troubling forms with beautiful nuance, and this novel is an entire world unto itself. You’ll hate to leave it. – Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, authors of FEAST WHILE YOU CAN
I adored Strange Girls. Beautifully written, Sarvat Hasin perfectly captures university life in the noughties, the all-consuming intimacy of closeted queer-coded relationships between young women and the unbearable weight of unspoken feelings. PERFECTION. – Alice Slater, author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER
Hasin plumbs the depths of obsessive, intense friendship; the beautiful, the sad and the heartbreaking. A breathtaking novel by one of the most exciting writers today. – Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Strange Girls is alive with the intoxicating intensity of youthful creative friendship-devotion, jealousy, and a shared hunger for art. Sarvat Hasin’s fresh, tender writing stayed with me, capturing how deeply those early bonds can shape, and scar, a life. – Lisa Harding, author of THE WILDELINGS
Hasin’s writing is evocative and addictive, layering in issues of class, place and race into an otherwise introspective and detailed novel. – ‘The 12 most anticipated novels of 2026’ * Dazed *

A novel both radiant with the brightness and wonder of youth, and wise-eyed with the dissolution of idealism. Sarvat Hasin is a brilliant chronicler of the human heart, and this book will move and enthral anyone who has been deeply entwined in friendship, love and nostalgia (that is, everyone!).

Sarvat Hasin is a novelist and dramaturg from Pakistan. She has a master’s in creative writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book, You Can’t Go Home Again, was featured in Vogue India’s and The Hindu’s ‘best of the year’ lists. Her third novel, The Giant Dark, was a runaway critical success, won the Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award. She lives in London.

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