Tobias Madden Delivers A Delightful Love Letter To Friendship With New Novel ‘Quite The Pair’

Gay Australian author Tobias Madden has delivered his latest novel, Quite The Pair, offering a refreshing and charming new story.

Set against the backdrop of New York City, his latest story follows a pair of best friends as their lives are simultaneously turned upside down.

It’s a step out of the world of young adult literature for Madden, offering a charming change of pace.

 

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Tobias Madden releases Quite The Pair

Since 2021, Tobias Madden has released three charming queer young adult novels.

Anything But Fine, Take A Bow Noah Mitchell and Wrong Answers Only all offered beautiful insights into the world of young queer love, told through the eyes of their teenage gay protagonists.

Quite The Pair brings Madden’s next story out of the teenage genre and instead tells the story of modern friendship, love, identity and life in your 30’s, this time in New York City.

Austin, an aspiring Broadway actor/dancer from Australia, and his best friend Sydney met ten years ago when they first became flatmates in the big city.

In the decade since they first met, their lives have drawn them apart as Austin has bounced from heartbreak to heartbreak, while Sydney has settled into a pattern of domestic normalcy with her long-term boyfriend Cameron.

However, as fate would have it, Austin and Sydney’s lives both come crashing back together as Austin is dumped by his boyfriend Tyler on the same day Sydney walks away from her own relationship after she realises their future plans no longer align. Cameron wants a baby, now, and Sydney is far from ready.

So begins a simple plan, led by Austin; the pair agree to reunite and live together once again, for one year.

Both agree to break their patterns of bad life choices; Austin vows to stop falling for every guy that comes along, adamant he will not date again for the year, while Sydney agrees to try and break her own patterns, step out of her comfort zone, and start dating.

However, it’s not long before a gorgeous and perfect new man walks into Austin’s life, testing his resolve; meanwhile, as Sydney starts dipping her toe in the dating pool again, she truly starts to understand how unhappy she is with her life.

Everything about Quite The Pair is charming, refreshing, and easy to read. The characters come to life easily as the reader is drawn into a world many gay men can relate to. There is something simple, relatable, and easy to read about Austin; his earnest yearning for someone to love him and determination to reach the career goals he aspires to are real, as is his emotional attachment to Sydney when he feels his life is falling apart around him.

Madden captures the beautiful, supportive, and often complicated relationships gay men share with the important women in our lives during our formative years perfectly. These relationships often define our youth, and we can all relate to the complexity of how those relationships change as we age and change from one decade of our life into the next.

Madden describes his latest book as a “love letter to friendship and all and the incredible women in my life” and Quite The Pair reads as exactly that.

“It’s a tale of second chances, life in New York City, musical theatre, corporate jobs, dating, sex, gay stuff, and finding yourself (again or for the first time) in your thirties,” he wrote on Instagram upon release of the book.

Quite The Pair is easily a successful move for Madden as he transitions into the world of adult fiction and an easy pick for anyone wanting a light and loveable read that puts a smile on your face.

You can find Quite The Pair available now at all good book sellers.

 

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