I’m delighted to share details today of my latest My Weekly online review. This time it is of Graffiti Girls by Elissa Soave. My huge thanks to Isabel Williams for originally sending me a copy of Graffiti Girls. My enormous apologies to Elissa and HQ for the extraneous ‘The’ that has crept into my review! Life was rather challenging at the time and my brain upped and left!
I previously reviewed Elissa’s Ginger and Me in a post you’ll find here.
Published by HQ on 13th March 2025, Graffiti Girls is available for purchase through the publisher links here.
The Graffiti Girls
Amy, Carole, Lenore and Susan have been best friends since school. Back then they couldn’t wait for the future, for the amazing lives they’d have.
But things haven’t worked out how they expected. Now in their forties, they’re fed up with being taken for granted by their families, being passed over for promotions at work and being told that they’re past their best. And they’re not going to go quietly anymore.
Fuelled by female rage and their charismatic leader Amy, the four embark on a campaign of graffiti in their hometown of Hamilton, scrawling feminist slogans on the walls of local buildings.
But is Hamilton ready for the feminist revolution the Graffiti Girls have in store?
My Review of Graffiti Girls
My full review of Graffiti Girls can be found on the My Weekly website here.
However, here I can say that Graffiti Girls is a fast paced, entertaining triumph of a book that questions the patriarchy and might just have you reaching for your spray can. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found myself egging on the girls throughout.
Do visit the My Weekly website to read my full review here.
About Elissa Soave
Elissa Soave won the inaugural Primadonna Prize in 2019. She was also a Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect finalist 2019 and has had work published in various journals and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland, Gutter, and the Glasgow Review of Books. Her first novel, Ginger and Me, was published by HQ, HarperCollins in July 2022, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award 2023. Her second novel, Graffiti Girls, was published by HQ in March 2025, with her third, The Allotments, coming out in March 2026. Elissa was a judge on the Primadonna Prize 2022 and the Curae Prize 2023 and 2025. She currently lives in South Lanarkshire.
