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The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is
- Author
- Rhyannon Styles
- Narrator
- Rhyannon Styles
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 1 June 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
Imagine feeling lost in your own body. Imagine spending years living a lie, denying what makes you 'you'. This was Ryan's reality. He had to choose: die as a man or live as a woman.
In 2012, Ryan made the choice to set Rhyannon free. At the age of thirty Rhyannon began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self, and the emotional, physical and psychological journey that would change her for ever.
In a time when the world is finally waking up to transgender people, Rhyannon opens up to us, holding nothing back in this heartbreakingly honest telling of her life. Through her catastrophic lows and incredible highs, Rhyannon paints a picture of what it's like to be transgender in glorious technicolor. From cabaret drag acts, brushes with celebrity and Parisian clown school, to struggles with substance abuse and crippling depression, Rhyannon's story is like nothing you've read before.
It is a redemptive, moving and empowering story, of how we must fight to be true to ourselves, even if it seems beyond the realms of possibility. This, we owe to ourselves.
(P)2017 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Critics Review
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I watched Rhyannon Styles begin as the most inspiring and heart-wrenching cocoon I ever saw and now she is a glorious butterfly
Paloma Faith
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Love Rhyannon. Love this book. Everything you've ever wondered about transition, cocooned in an epic tale of fleeing suburbia and big city fabulousness
Grace Dent
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I loved this book - Rhyannon doesn't just shine a light on this subject, she sets off a bloody fireworks display
Cherry Healey
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I am changed for having read this - congratulations, Rhyannon, on a bold life that inspires and lifts - the world needed this truth
Laura Jane Williams, author and blogger
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A story that will make you smile and sob in equal measure, and challenge everything you thought you knew about gender, sex, and fashion. Once read, never forgotten
Rebecca Root
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A wonderful asset to our community
Caroline Tula, Trans icon, model and Bond girl
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Proud to be holding this book ... The best and worst of times in a wonderful memoir
Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times
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Rhyannon is such a great ambassador for the trans community. She writes with such class while also keeping it super real. I've got a book coming out later this year and all I'm saying is I'm glad my book isn't a memoir, because I'd hate to have to compete with this
Charlie Craggs
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Rhyannon Styles journey of transition is fraught with the unique issues of her generation. Honest and unflinching, she walks the tightrope of uncertainty with confidence in the unknowing. A modern Artemis in the queer wilderness, midwifing her own becoming
Penny Arcade
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A deeply honest and candid memoir ... In a beautifully moving account of her life, Rhyannon left us captured until the very last page
Marie Claire South Africa
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Details
- Author
- Rhyannon Styles
- Narrator
- Rhyannon Styles
- Duration
- 8 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 June 2017
- ISBN
- 9781472243157
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Autobiography: general, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Feminism and feminist theory
Synopsis
The transgender memoir you won't stop hearing about. Rhyannon Styles will do for transgender what Matt Haig did for mental health. Elle columnist Rhyannon Styles tells her unforgettable life story in THE NEW GIRL, charting her incredible journey from male to female. A powerful book about being true to ourselves, for anyone who's ever felt a little lost. Imagine feeling lost in your own body. Imagine spending years living a lie, denying what makes you 'you'. This was Ryan's reality. He had to choose: die as a man or live as a woman.In 2012, Ryan made the choice to set Rhyannon free. At the age of thirty Rhyannon began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self, and the emotional, physical and psychological journey that would change her for ever.In a time when the world is finally waking up to transgender people, Rhyannon opens up to us, holding nothing back in this heartbreakingly honest telling of her life. Through her catastrophic lows and incredible highs, Rhyannon paints a picture of what it's like to be transgender in glorious technicolor. From cabaret drag acts, brushes with celebrity and Parisian clown school, to struggles with substance abuse and crippling depression, Rhyannon's story is like nothing you've read before.It is a redemptive, moving and empowering story, of how we must fight to be true to ourselves, even if it seems beyond the realms of possibility. This, we owe to ourselves.(P)2017 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
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