Gender Theory

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781399812207
  • Weight: 152g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDING

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.

Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl.

And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed.

Over the next few years you have a string of relationships and jobs, but you can always count on Ella to be there for you - until the drinking and the parties, the hospital visits and late-night calls, blur the lines of your friendship into something unbalanced and fragile, at risk of breaking altogether.

The worst part is you can see it coming. The worst part is you don't know how to stop.

From a blazing new voice in Scottish fiction, Gender Theory is an incisive, affecting debut about illness, identity and how we care for those around us.

Madeline Docherty is a Scottish writer and winner of the 2022 North Literary Agency Prize. She grew up in the Scottish Borders and now lives in Glasgow, where she works in communications and teaches creative writing workshops for the charity Mind Waves. Gender Theory is her first novel.

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