Book Review

Double Booked: A light-hearted tale of self-discovery and bi romance

Despite some dated cultural references and a rather naive heroine, Lily Lindon deals adeptly with the subject of bisexuality in her readable and enjoyable debut novel

Lily Lindon: her debut novel, Double Booked, delivers a comic, if slightly corny, story of a woman who comes out as bi and ends up living a double life

Books about women exploring their bisexuality were once banned or burned, but these days they make for perfectly well-behaved works of commercial fiction. Like Double Booked, the debut novel by British writer and editor Lily Lindon. Touted by her fellow author Laura Kay as “the queer rom-com I’ve been waiting for”, it delivers a comic, if slightly corny, story of a woman who comes out as bi and ends up living a double life.

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