Trust & Safety
by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman
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Pub Date 13 Jun 2024 | Archive Date 6 Jun 2024
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Description
Whip-smart and wickedly funny, Trust and Safety examines questions of authenticity, betrayal, belonging and entitlement, while poking fun at contemporary fear of the ‘gay agenda’
Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate – one full of beauty and authenticity. Willing to do anything for Rosie's happiness, her tech-bro husband, Jordan, acquiesces to her vision for the future, and they offer – well above asking price – on a beautiful, historic fixer-upper in the Hudson Valley. But when Jordan suddenly loses his job on the day they close the deal, the couple is forced to rent out the property's dilapidated outbuilding.
Enter Dylan and Lark: an incredibly attractive and handy queer couple who offer to rent the outbuilding and help Rosie and Jordan with repairs. They're living the life Rosie had envisioned for herself: hand-built furniture, herbal tinctures, guinea hens, and hand-dyed linens. Rosie grows increasingly infatuated with their new tenants, especially with model-esque and charismatic Dylan – to Jordan's increasing distress.
Advance Praise
'Sexy, surprising, witty and beautifully written - Trust and Safety is a complete delight from start to finish' - Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author of The Spare Room and We Were Never Here
'Trust and Safety is distressingly smart, wickedly sly, and side-clutchingly hilarious - I was howling! I simply could not turn away...What a brilliantly observed and witty take on the sometimes absurd ways we choose to live. And how blessedly and wonderfully gay' - Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made
'Laugh-out-loud... If you want a book that perfectly evokes millennial sexual politics under late-stage capitalism, and in which all of us - gay, straight, cis, and trans alike - are read for absolute filth, then look no further than Trust and Safety' - Rafael Frumkin, author of Confidence and Bugsy
'Irresistibly hilarious and weird, sexy and surprising, and gently profound, Trust and Safety delighted me at every turn and delivered razor-sharp insights into our contemporary search for authenticity, beauty, and the perfect vintage doorknob' - Jenny Fran Davis, author of Dykette
'What happens when we try to live the life that Instagram is selling us? This is the question that Trust and Safety hilariously-and poignantly-asks... It's a smart, funny, and timely exploration of what happens when our obsessions get the better of us, and when we discover that authenticity is not as authentic as it seems' - Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780857308818 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 288 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
A D, Reviewer
I really enjoyed this book overall, funny and loving, the queerness definitely made me fall in love with it more.
Reviewer 992166
The book is amusing and thought provoking. It has the kind of conversations that will make you laugh out loud and think about life twice.
Rosie and Jordon are newly married couple. The author has shared everything about them; how they met and elaborated the bond between them. Rosie is not satisfied with her life. She is looking for a better life and she comes across an old house located in Hudson Valley. It fascinated her. But Jordan and Rosie are faced with the unexpected challenges. There they meet a queer couple. Their life changes in an unexpected way.
The character development was good. Plot twists were unpredictable. The writing is compelling. Jordon was willing to do anything for Rosie. While Rosie was finding her happiness. Dylan and Lark were good. The book is good if you want to read about life and things you never talk to anyone about like the bond between couple, things we realise so late in life and the conversations that make you uncomfortable.
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