Chosen Family is a sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers by the award-winning author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller, Green Dot.

Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is  one. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd and friendless. Traumatised in their first year of high
school, their lives are changed forever when they meet. 

Set in Sydney over 18 years, Chosen Family follows Nell and Eve as they grow into themselves, and as they both love and destroy each other. From school to university, to careers and motherhood, Nell’s and Eve’s is a relationship that is both a life-raft and a poison apple. Together, Nell and Eve are a double helix. Love, guilt, shame, joy – these emotions twist and turn between them. Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what is going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do with it, got to do with it?
Written with Gray’s characteristic compassion, wit, and dark humour, Chosen Family is a modern classic for the ages.

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Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. Madeleine has a PhD in feminist literary theory from the University of Manchester, an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Art History from the University of Sydney. She is the author of Green Dot.