Gender Theory

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