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Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan
Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis, Octavia Nyombi
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It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at a university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a charming young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But, shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.

From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face shifts in their relationship in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises - some personal, some professional, some life-altering - Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are

©2023 Nicola Dinan (P)2023 Penguin Audio City Life Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Urban Witty England

Critic reviews

"Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as a genuine literary talent, a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart." (Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti)

"Thoughtful, seductive, and entirely engrossing - Bellies is already a classic." (Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot)

"Smart, hilarious and deeply moving." (Elliot Page, author of Pageboy)
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It's a very compelling story, contemporary and powerful. I found some of it overwritten, trying too hard, just over done.... but accepted that as youthfulness, life being discovered fresh, for the first time.

The performance of the two voices is superb especially Tom. But really, guys, a quick online search would have helped avoid a list of mispronounced Malay words. Ming is supposedly Malaysian or brought up in KL?

But hey, overall it's a great performance....

loved it, fascinating, sightly flawed

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a must read! the narrators did an excellent job! I smiled, shed a few tears and wasn’t ready to say goodbye.

stunning, raw and tender

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