PARADISE ROT

Discover the beautiful coming of age story about falling in and out of love brimming with humour and heartbreak Smart hilarious and deeply moving Elliot Page author of Pageboy Thoughtful seductive and entirely engrossing Bellies is already a classic Bryan Washington author of Memorial and Lot Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as a genuine literary talent a gimlet eyed cartographer of the human heart Sharlene Teo author of Ponti It begins as your typical boy meets boy Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other It s not long before they are planning a future and building a life Then Ming announces her intention to transition As Tom and Ming both face shifts in their relationship and confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken they must both ask if it is worth losing a part of themselves or each other to become the people they want to be Praise for Bellies Dinan s gift as a writer is her ability to make us feel when her characters cry we cry when they laugh we laugh and everybody is changed by the end of this novel including the reader A beautiful love story and an exceptional debut Irish Times The most hotly anticipated novel of the summer Harper s Ba