LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book
Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first bookAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row 'A
voraciously knowing compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus 'Tremendously funny and sexy as
hell' Juliet Jacques 'I loved this very smart book from start to finish with its beautifully
drawn complicated and winning characters.' Madeleine Miller Reese nearly had it all: a loving
relationship with Amy an apartment in New York a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together
a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of the only thing missing was a
child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode
avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. When her ex calls to ask if she wants to
be a mother Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street Amy
de-transitioned to become Ames changed jobs and thinking he was infertile started an affair
with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional
family - and raise the baby together?
