# The Boyfriend

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-southgate/the-boyfriend/9781405548458

![The Boyfriend](https://quivercdn.com/covers/little-brown-audio/laura-southgate/the-boyfriend_978-14-0554-845-8.jpg?v=2026-05-11%2019%3A50%3A46)

- Book: [The Boyfriend](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-southgate/the-boyfriend) ([The Boyfriend.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-southgate/the-boyfriend.md))
- Authors: [Laura Southgate](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-southgate)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0554-845-8
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Winner of the Adam Foundation Prize Erica is 17 and in her last year of high school. Donny is 42 and everywhere - in her yoga class, at German Club, in her parents' spare room . . . The story of a young woman who finds herself subject to the gravitational field of a charismatic man, The Boyfriend is a cautionary tale about blindly accepting traditional 'love' narratives. This clear-eyed, dismaying and often hilarious examination of sexual desire, trauma and growth is a remarkable debut and a perfect novel for our time.