num_pages: 348
description: For Irish-Indian lesbian activist JAYA DILLON an outsider who craves belonging over all else survival depends on hiding the truth of who she is and who she loves - from herself. In the heated run-up to Irelands referendum on same-sex marriage she finds herself trapped between the Yes and No sides. And Jaya's got a boulder on her shoulder about bisexual women and being brown in Ireland. While clearing out an Indian couples rental house in Galway she discovers a manuscript written by the wife Lana who disappeared in worrying circumstances. When Jaya travels to France she comes closer to the characters in Lanas unfinished novel than she ever imagined possible. And she is shoved back into contact with her ex- fiance Chloe who is planning her own wedding. To a man. Jaya is drawn into a fictional world that may be truer than reality. As she fights to uncover the truth everything she thought she knew about her politics and her place in the world turns on its head as she falls for the elusive Lana is attracted to the charming gay French-Algerian Ishmael and his beautiful sister Isabella and confronts her unresolved feelings and dread over the choices Chloe is making. Can she find Lana and the truth in time to save Chloe  without losing herself?
language: English
title: An Outsider Inside
publisher: self-published