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Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

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Also by Matt Cain:

The Castle of Stories, April 2026
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One Love, May 2025
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Becoming Ted, June 2024
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The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle, June 2022
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BECOMING TED
By: Matt Cain

A John Scognamiglio Book
June 2024
On Sale: May 21, 2024
Featuring: Ted Ainsworth; Giles
400 pages
ISBN: 1496745949
EAN: 9781496745941
Kindle: B0CHHG4RJC
Hardcover / e-Book
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A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaimed author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle. Fans of the musical “Kinky Boots” and Byron Lane’s Big Gay Wedding will have their hearts stolen by Becoming Ted!

If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family’s company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla—sweet, inoffensive, and pleasantly predictable. At forty-three, Ted is convinced there’s nothing remotely remarkable about him, except perhaps his luck in having landed handsome, charismatic Giles as a husband.

Then Giles suddenly leaves him for another man, filling his social media feed with posts about #newlove and adventure. And Ted, who has spent nearly twenty years living with, and often for, another person, must reimagine the future he has happily taken for granted.

But perhaps there is another Ted slowly blossoming now that he’s no longer in Giles’s shadow—funny, sassy, more uninhibited. Someone willing to take chances on new friendships, and even new love. Someone who’s been waiting in the wings too long, but who’s about to dust off a long-ago secret dream and overturn everyone’s expectations of him—especially his own. . .