When To Let Go

Adie Green has spent her twenties managing everyone else's feelings. She talks her best friend Josh through his dating anxieties, tiptoes around her mother's post-divorce fragility, and puts up with her grandmother bringing strange men home. The one thing she can't manage is her father, who refuses to accept that she's gay.

Then Morgan turns up: a plumber with a complicated family of her own. She doesn't offer answers or easy reassurance. She's just honest, and patient, and she makes Adie wonder what it would be like to want something for herself.

But wanting Morgan means letting go of the peace Adie has spent years keeping. Her father may never change. The question is how long she's prepared to keep shrinking to fit around him.

When to Let Go is a slow-burn, character-driven queer novel about family obligation, emotional labour, and living as yourself without waiting for permission.