Dean Atta

Celebrate big decisions and messy relationships with Dean Atta as he launches his new coming-of-age novel-in-verse I Can’t Even Think Straight. Kai and his best friend Matt made a promise to each other to stay in the closet. Matt isn’t ready to come out, but Kai wants nothing more than to write his own story. He decides it’s time to break his promise…

Dean Atta has been named as ‘one of poetry’s greatest modern voices’ (Gay Times). His first novel The Black Flamingo was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Jhalak Prize and the YA Book Prize.