“A riotous, real-feeling debut” – The Guardian.
Life is not kind to Noah Grimes. His father vanished years ago, his mother’s Beyonce tribute act mortifies him at every turn, and his beloved gran isn’t quite herself any more. With just one friend, Harry, to lean on, school feels like pure hell — so why can’t Noah just be normal like everyone else? He wonders whether dating someone, maybe Sophie, who is perfect and lovely, might change how people see him. Instead, his plans collapse entirely when Harry kisses him at a party, and things spiral from bad straight into utter chaos.
Simon James Green, one of the UK’s leading writers of LGBTQ+ teen fiction, is also the author of Alex in Wonderland, Gay Club and the rest of the Noah Can’t Even books — ideal next reading for fans of Heartstopper and Adam Silvera. Noah Can’t Even was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award, won the Wirral Paperback of the Year, was shortlisted for the Leeds Book Awards, and took Bronze in the Amazing Book Awards, while Simon’s later novel You’re The One That I Want won the Bristol Teen Book Award 2022 & was shortlisted for the YA Book Award in association with the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022.
MORE PRAISE FOR NOAH CAN’T EVEN ‘I loved Noah’s voice: warm, loveable, awkward’. The Bookseller
‘Slapstick but wonderfully funny’ Jewish Chronicle
‘A debut I very much loved’ Juno Dawson, author of The Gender Games and role model for Stonewall UK
‘Sweet, barmy, charming, unexpectedly romantic delight of a YA novel. I smiled the whole way through.’ Lisa Williamson, author of The Art of Being Normal
‘A riotous, real-feeling YA debut’ – The Guardian
ISBN 13: 9781407179940
Author: Simon James Green
