Trust and Safety
Laura Blackett author Eve Gleichman author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Published:13th Jun '24
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Blackett and Gleichman have an extraordinary talent for getting to the heart of what makes a character so horribly human, our hypocrisies and basest desires. Trust and Safety is wickedly funny, astute and brilliantly, terribly relatable... I could not put it down -- Laura Kay, author of Wild Things and Making It
The perfect book for reminding you about the dangers of believing what you see advertised on Instagram, Trust & Safety satirically pierces everything from idyllic countryside living in massive do-upper houses and New York influencers, to polyamory and pickle jars. It's a very entertaining reminder that what might look good on the surface could be something else entirely behind the scenes; so go easy on yourself * Stylist (11 Books leading summer's biggest trend) *
Blackett and Gleichman are experts of irony and poking at hypocrisy... Sharp as an artisanal vegetable peeler, outrageously horny and thrillingly ominous, Trust & Safety is the morality tale the queers need right now. It straddles wish-fulfilment and dystopia, cottagecore escapism and Black Mirror-esque warning. Reading it will also unlock your lumberjack kink
-- Lily Lindon, author of Double Booked and My Own Worst Enemy * LoveReading *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. Blackett and Gleichman achieve the best kind of storytelling: the type that forces you to contend with their characters' choices, then holds up a mirror so you're implicated in their foibles and bad decision-making - all while demanding that you turn the page because you simply must know how it ends. 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
ISBN: 9780857308818
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288 pages