Gender Theory: A blazing new voice in Scottish fiction (Paperback)

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You tell Ella first. About the boy from your gender theory seminar. About the girl you kiss at the party. About the diagnosis that sends you to hospital, and the ones that follow.

Over the next few years, your life shifts through jobs, relationships and cities. Ella remains constant. She is there in waiting rooms and kitchens, at parties and on late night walks home. The rhythm of your friendship is shaped by care, habit and need, until the balance between you begins to tilt.

Drinking blurs into dependence. Support edges towards obligation. What once felt mutual starts to feel fragile, strained by unspoken expectations and the weight of being relied upon too heavily. You can see the change as it happens, even as you move towards it.

This is literary fiction attentive to intimacy and illness, to friendship as both refuge and risk, and to the quiet damage done when love is asked to carry more than it can hold.