Gender Theory 'A blazing new voice in Scottish fiction'

<BR/><B>'Beautifully captures the pain of growing into yourself, and the intensity of all-consuming female friendship' ROSE WILDING</B><BR/><BR/> You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.<BR/><BR/> Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl.<BR/><BR/> And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed.<BR/><BR/> 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.<BR/><BR/> The worst part is you can see it coming. The worst part is you don't know how to stop.<BR/><BR/><B>From a blazing new voice in Scottish fiction, <I>Gender Theory</I> is an incisive, affecting debut about illness, identity and how we care for those around us.</B><BR/>  <BR/>