DISAPPOINT ME

The brand new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Bellies a funny and poignant exploration of millennial angst race trans panic and the allure of bougie domesticity Chosen as a Best Book of 2025 by Cosmopolitan Stylist Elle Dazed Vogue AnOther and GQ One of the UK s most perceptive young novelists with her finger firmly on the pulse of contemporary behaviour Guardian Riveting funny and devastating Shon Faye bestselling author of The Transgender IssueMax is thirty a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company She s living her best life Or is she The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year s Eve party and wakes up in hospital alone she decides to make some changes First things first a stab at good old fashioned heteronormativity Enter Vincent corporate lawyer and hobby baker His trad friendship group may as well speak a different language to Max and his Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman It s uncertain terrain but Vincent cares for Max in a way she d long given up on as a foolish fantasy Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage On his gap year in Thailand a decade prior he vies for the attent