Eat the Ones You Love

Sarah Maria Griffin is a writer living in Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of the novels Spare & Found Parts, Other Words For Smoke, which won an Irish Book Award in 2019 and Eat the Ones You Love which was a Sunday Times Irish Book of the Year in 2025. She writes about video games for The Guardian, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Irish Times, The Winter Papers, and The Stinging Fly, amongst other places. She also makes zines. She was shortlisted for the Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year in 2025. She posts on Instagram as sarahgriffski.

"Deliciously strange, delightfully wicked... Griffin thrives in the liminal space between genres, throwing out roots and blooming in weird and wonderful ways." -- V.E. Schwab"It's been an excellent few years for gothic novels, and Eat the Ones You Love is among the best I've read. It's certainly the most fun. Gorgeous, bewitching, full of heart and secrets and smarts, it kept me up late and turned my dreams strange." -- Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love"This murdery plant is my number one problematic fave. Eat The Ones You Love is intricate, unusual, and unlike anything you've read before. An eccentric, deeply sensual, and artistically sure-footed exploration of toxicity in many forms. I devoured it." -- Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six"Sarah Maria Griffin is an artist of the rarest kind: genuine, vulnerable, funny, tragic and wise." -- Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Long Live Evil"Eat The Ones You Love is a masterpiece?inventive, intimate, and so incisive on the way class shapes human relationships. Griffin's voice is absolutely singular; scalpel-sharp and deeply lyrical, every word unexpected and yet precise. Simply put, this book redefines the literary horror genre. Fans of Paul Tremblay and T. Kingfisher have found their new obsession." -- Laura Steven, award-winning author of The Society of Soulless Girls"Eat the Ones You Love is a beautiful, dark gem of a book. Sarah Maria Griffin writes with acute attention to the intersection between class and relationships, and the all-consuming effects of possession." -- Zoraida Cordova, USA Today bestselling author of The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina"Eat the Ones You Love is a visceral experience akin to stepping into a lush greenhouse and feeling your skin come alive, blood warm and tingling, as spring green vines brush your cheeks whispering promises of hunger. Decadent, heartfelt, delicious, dark, broken, sweet, and horrifying, this book is a journey of verdant, blooming love and creeping terror not to be missed." -- Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times-bestselling author of Bloom and Guillotine"This poignant and original examination of desire and decay is a stunner." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"The ultimate complex relationship story, this horrific tale is infused with humor and wit via Griffin's prose... Fans of John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In should pick this up." -- Library Journal, starred review"Sarah Maria Griffin's prose is intoxicatingly verdant - I found myself dying to get back to reading any time life forced me to put it down. Griffin's voice holds your hand through the pages with compelling surety. It's a palpable, skilfully executed horror where you can't see the florist for the trees until it's too late. This one lingers and I loved it." * Courtney Smyth, author of The Undetectables *