My Clavicle:

'Sanz's autofictional English-language debut is a poetic mediation on illness, mortality, and writing.' 

-- Sophia Stewart * The Millions' Great Summer 2025 Book Preview *

'This work of autofiction . . . abounds with lived-in details on everything from anxieties over mortality to going through the menopause. Sanz also works on some interesting formal choices into this book, along with nods to writers as disparate as Lillian Hellman, Elvira Navarro, and James M. Cain.'

-- Tobias Carroll * The Watchlist: July 2025 *

'One of the most harsh, beautiful, brutal and impious books that I have read in a long time.'

-- Leila Guerriero * Clavícula: Me tomó pocas horas leer el libro, pero todavía siento sus efectos *

'She has found the best way to be a political writer: her language is like a body. She talks to you like nobody else can.'

-- J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos * Marta Sanz, la crisis del cuerpo *

'A literary exercise in "auto-fiction" that also studies the mood of a family and a wider social environment.'

-- Íñigo Urrutia * Crónica de un dolor *

'Marta Sanz demonstrates a poetics of fragility . . . Her writing oozes pain and truth. However, . . . it also oozes life, possibility, catharsis and games, luminosity and humour.'

-- Edurne Portela * 'Clavícula', de Marta Sanz: una poética de la fragilidad *

'Her (auto)fictive character is a funny and alive, kind of unsentimental, menopausal, overworked writer, who by the end of the first page, already describes an “attack of the farts.” By the end of the second, calls another writer a bitch. This excellent voice-work is also due to Katie King, who translated Sanz’s writing from Spanish.'

-- Ruby Rosenthal * Life Disguised as Art in 'My Clavicle' *

'If art imitates life, then My Clavicle does a good job, because it’s all over the place – but not all over the place in a way that feels disorienting. Although, if it is disorienting, it’s because, Sanz is saying life is disorienting, and fractured like the main character’s pain, in a way we don’t ask for.'

-- Ruby Rosenthal * Life Disguised as Art in 'My Clavicle' *

'Alongside refreshingly honest insights into the physical and mental difficulties of menopause, Sanz proffers equally honest reflections on the perils of being a writer.' 

* My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments *

'For a novel about an obsession with mortality, this witty tale brims with vitality.' 

* My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignmen