An evening with Nicola Dinan at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome Nicola Dinan () back to Deansgate, in celebration of her brilliant second novel, .
Another engrossing, heartfelt story of love, loss and the challenges of being true to yourself, we follow a poet-cum-legal councellor trans woman who decides to take a stab at heteronormativity.
Nicola will be joined in conversation by Naomi Frisby. Their discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and signing.
About Disappoint Me
Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party and wakes up in hospital alone, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity.

Enter Vincent, corporate lawyer and hobby baker. His trad friendship group may as well speak a different language to Max, and his Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. It’s uncertain terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy.

Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage. On his gap year in Thailand a decade prior, he vies for the attention of a gorgeous traveller, Alex, with secrets of her own. Is Vincent really the new face of the Enlightened Man, or will the ghosts of his past sabotage his and Max’s happiness?
About the author
NICOLA DINAN grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies, her debut, was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, Diverse Book Awards and Mo Siewcharran Prize, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize.

Host or Publisher Waterstones