Detransition, Baby

A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit.

• Longlisted For The Women's Prize For Fiction 2021;
• February 2021 Book Of The Month For Roxane Gay's Book Club.

'Irresistible ... Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel' - Guardian
'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' - Chris Kraus
'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' - Juliet Jacques

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?

'So good I want to scream' - Carmen Maria Machado