A Disaffection is a novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman, first published in 1989 by Secker and Warburg.

Set in Glasgow, it is written in Scots using a stream-of-consciousness style, centring on a 29-year-old schoolteacher named Patrick Doyle.

[1][2] The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style using the Glasgow dialect, concerns one week in the life of 29-year-old schoolteacher Patrick Doyle.

He is in love with fellow schoolteacher Alison Houston, who is already married (without kids), and who rejects his advances.

The rest of the novel concerns Patrick's visit to his parents one weekend and, on a separate day, to his married elder brother Gavin's home.