A Girlhood
19 January 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.
When Carolyn Hays’s child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a...
Details
19 January 2023288 pages
9781529064483Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love'Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat
Hays’s story is about more than the transgender question: it’s about ignorance and wisdom; hatred and love; men, women, and children. In the end, A Girlhood is about all of us.Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There and Good Boy
It’s impossible to read this book and not root for the fierce, human, beautiful family at its center and the daughter that they - ‘like tanks’ - protect against those who try to steal her joy.Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
'I saw facets of my own trans identity I’d never pondered, questions about the construction of self I’d never even thought to pose . . . An act of epic compassion.Diana Goetsch, author of This Body I Wore
