Author Talk: Queer Debut Novels

We're excited to introduce you to two fantastic queer debut novels: Waiting on a Friend and The Leveret.

Join us in conversation with Natalie Adler and Anna Goldreich.

**Waiting on a Friend**

The dazzling debut of ghosts and queer resistance set in 1980s New York.

'Funny, sexy, heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano

East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started dying of what has recently been named AIDS. So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again.

With her band of lovably eccentric pals and lovers, Renata is determined to fight back against the erasure of her friends' memories and the sanitizing of her beloved New York. Both heartbreaking and healing, tragic and triumphant, Waiting on a Friend is a magical retelling of queer history and a celebration of youth and camaraderie.

**The Leveret**

A heartbreakingly gorgeous and lyrically haunting debut novel about grief in the aftermath of baby loss and the power of queer love – perfect for fans of Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh and Daisy Johnson

'A mesmerizing and haunting debut from a once-in-a-generation talent’ Lucy Lamb.

With this bruisingly tender love story, debut author Anna Goldreich has conjured a hazy dream of a novel about the fantasies we create as a refuge from grief. The Leveret is a heartbreakingly gorgeous and lyrically haunting hymn to queer love and the power to rebuild from the wreckage of a relationship.