anyway, won't say anything about it

Georgina, aka Gina/George, is a pragmatic, smart twenty six year old with a life that has been shaped in order. Not only is her routine perfectly timed, but she doesn’t like to break it, either. Only, when she decides (or is persuaded) by her best friend Soph into going on a night out to see an indie lesbian pop-band called Phase, it changes Georgina’s life trajectory as she knows it.

She has always loved playing piano, teaching instead of doing—but that all changes overnight. Suddenly, she finds her life shifting into separate directions, one where she’s Gina—her old self—and another where she is George, the newest member of the band who is deeply questioning her sexuality and whether her feelings for Phase’s drummer are more than a simple crush and what that means for her relationship with her boyfriend. But splitting herself in two can only work for so long, and she soon finds herself feeling torn about where her life is going—and what that means for those Gina and George hold dear.

Overall, once I really got into the book, maybe about midway, was when I really began to love where it was going, whereas early on there’s a bit of world-building (that is needed) where I was trying to see how it would pan out. I loved the friendship between Georgina and Soph, and I felt that the way the author wrote Georgina discovering and working out her sexuality quite honest and well-done. There were a few bits that were a bit stereotypical/cliché, but these didn’t overpower the altogether eminence of the book. But as a whole, Double Booked was a fun, punchy read with characters that had a wicked sense of humour, and was an overall perfect weekend read for all twenty-somethings. Four shiny stars!

This is a fun story about a woman who starts living a double life, one with her boyfriend of 7 years and have everything planned out in their joint calendar and the other joining a queer band and transforming her look. This book perfectly encapsulates the pros and cons of a double life and all the consequences it provides with the secrets and lying to family and friends. I liked how Gina seemed to effortlessly transform into 2 different people and loved all the fun she had as George.
There is a lot of drama that could have easily been resolved with a conversation but overall it was a fun and easy read.

* I received a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review *

Thanks to the publisher for the advance copy of Lily Lindon's delightful bisexual disaster comedy Double Booked.

This is a really enjoyable novel about protagonist Gina realising she's bisexual and dealing with it by secretly splitting her life in two, one with her long term boyfriend, and one where she becomes George, a lesbian in a queer band whose obsessed with her fuckboi bandmate. It's a total car crash of terrible decisions, internalised biphobia and self-delusion but one you can't look away from!

Something I really loved about Double Booked is that like Kate Davies In At The Deep End it felt like a very realistic portrayal of queer life in London. Who amongst us haven't seen an astrology-based lesbian band in Dalston or Peckham in our time?