Praise for the hop:

Kirkus Reviews (starred): "Clarke refuses to turn this story into a morality play…[and her] newly rich and famous [protagonist] doesn’t turn away from sex work. Instead, she uses her new freedom to imagine what sex work might look like if its practitioners were truly empowered and autonomous. Like Clarke’s debut, this is technically adventurous, politically relevant, and emotionally engaging."

Publishers Weekly (starred): “With a complicated mother-daughter relationship, unconditional friendships, disappointments, and a bold stance on the sex industry, Clarke’s novel consistently stirs the head and the heart. This is a great achievement.”

The New Yorker: “…a formally inventive and politically subversive novel [that] probes the contradictory ways in which our society views sex work.”

“The Hop is a fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down.” (Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller Of Women and Salt)

 Praise for THIN GIRLS:

Kirkus Reviews (starred) y: "The story [protagonist Rose] tells is as gripping as a thriller, but it’s Clarke’s language that truly makes this novel special. She writes with a lyricism that not only encompasses the grotesque and the transcendent, but also sometimes co-mingles the two. . . Incisive social commentary rendered in artful, original, and powerfully affecting prose." 

Publishers Weekly review: “In Clarke’s raw debut…the sisters’ bond is strongly palpable…This page-turner makes for an illuminating, ultimately hopeful look at the constant struggle women face regarding their body image.” 

Booklist review: “This debut novel is a breathtaking and sobering account of eating disorder treatment and mortality.” 

Associated Press review: “Dark, poignant and gripping, Diana Clarke’s Thin Girls is sure to be unlike anything else you’ve read…”

“A stunning debut novel…gorgeously crafted…From one sentence to the next, Clarke leaves her readers splayed open, throbbing with the most beautiful, necessary ache. She writes with unyielding honesty and breathtaking tenderness. Thin Girls is a brutal, and unrelenting examination of what it means to be a woman in a body, wanting, needing, wanting, needing so much” (Roxane Gay)

“Thin Girls is a sharp, cutting debut, ostensibly about the traps of anorexia and body dysmorphia. But its true concern is with the trappings of being a woman. Full of dry dark wit, the world Clarke has created would almost feel absurdist if it weren’t so dangerously real. This book made me feel so much: fear, dread, the flush of young love, the joy in small things, hope.”
(Diane Cook, author of Man V. Nature and The New Wilderness )

“Diana Clarke has written a lightning bolt of a book, one that electrifies with its powerful insights into women, their relationship with their bodies and with each other. I was instantly drawn into Clark’s dark vision of sisterhood, and emerged changed.” (Danielle Trussoni, bestselling author of Angelology and The Ancestor)

“Diana Clarke has written an edgy, deeply moving and original book. Her writing is beautifully poetic and tinged with dark wit, and she moves us elegantly between the past and present lives of two complex and fascinating sisters. This is a queer story, a female story and a story about identity shaped around pain, and yet it has the fearless depth of a story about all of us.” (Lexi Freiman, author of Inappropriation)