"Her writing embraces the socially unacceptable, and wryly explores themes of gender, power and violence." — Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023, on Penance
“Clark shrewdly turns her own lens onto us, onto our obsession with true crime and our complicity in the industry it has spawned. . . . She is disturbingly gifted at inventing unrealities that feel uncannily believable.” — New York Times Book Review on Penance
"A work of show-stopping formal mastery and penetrating intelligence." — Guardian on Penance