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- “A beautiful and deeply moving book on seeing and being seen – Out There unveils the ways in which we all grow into ourselves, not as a singular act but as a constantly shifting conversation with the self, our friends and family, our body and our language. A touching and honest account of trans life today, with all its heartbreaks and joys.” (Elizabeth Lovatt)
- “Out There uncovers the elemental forces – alienation, longing, dejection, determination, courage, tenderness, self-regard, love, grief – that coincide in the formation of a man. Suffusing Keohane’s observations is a gorgeous gentleness, out of which come flashes of insight, both painful and exalting. Essential reading.” (Gavin McCrae)
Out There
- Author: William Keohane (Ireland)
- Book type: Irish novel
- Publisher: And Other Stories
- To be released: November 10, 2026
- Length: 240 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 14.99 / £ 11.99
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Blurb of the William Keohane novel
How do you make a life in an unliveable present, when the path to change is impossibly slow?
Gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line. For William Keohane, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape. As Will navigates the endless waiting for referrals, appointments, hormones, and surgery, he compassionately charts the many people and places that have shaped his life—both with their love and their willingness to change alongside him. At once sparkling and meditative, with prose of undeniable eddying force, Out There is a universal reflection on transformation and becoming, which asks just how much has to change before we’re seen as who we are.
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, and British GQ Magazine, among others. Boxing Day, a poetry performance, toured internationally and was nominated for an award at the Dublin Fringe Festival. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing, received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and was one of ten poets selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick, and is currently completing a PhD in poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University Belfast.