Annabel – Kathleen Winter

Intersex is a condition even more difficult to describe than transsexuality. Born neither definitively one sex or the other, Wayne grows up shadowed by Annabel and is marooned in rural Canada battling not only the inner challenge, but those…

My Story – Caroline Cossey

I mention Caroline Cossey’s autobiography in Interloper, but that would have been her first book ‘I Am A Woman’. This one came out in the early 90’s and was at the time, the best and worst book I’d ever come across. Best, because it…

Sacred Country – Rose Tremain

I still can’t imagine how a writer – albeit one a brilliant as Rose Tremain – could have so convincingly occupied the mind of her central character, Martin (by way of Mary). Even though the protagonist yearned to take the opposite direction…

The First Lady – April Ashley

I knew less about Ms Ashley’s story – and it was years later than I came across this. Notable in particular for the sensation of her marriage, it’s annulment and the precedent that touched the lives of so many of us for so long. ht…