02189cam a2200373 i 4500 1262153834 TxAuBib 20240718120000.0 240528s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781496745941 HRD 27.00 1496745949 HRD 27.00 (OCoLC)1435862092 TxAuBib rda Cain, Matt. Becoming Ted [BOOK] / Matt Cain. First Kensington hardcover edition. New York : John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books, 2024. ©2024. 410 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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...". 20240718. Gay men England Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Separation (Psychology) Fiction. Midlife crisis Fiction. Drag queens Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction. LGBTQIA+. Gay fiction.