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What do you do when you find that your husband - your father, your son - is not who you thought? Can you ever love him again? A beautifully written, sensitive and witty novel of a family in utter chaos.

Girl meets boy. They fall in love, and they marry.

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Charity Norman, whose life like mine has been shared between England and New Zealand, writes psychological dramas dealing with sensitive subjects in domestic settings. This novel was published in 2015 when there was less public awareness about “gender dysphoria” than there is today. Luke Livingstone is a respected solicitor, happily married with two children, outwardly a typical male leading a conventional life. But since early childhood he has felt like a woman born into a man’s body, and keeping this secret has gradually become too much too bear. Having been narrowly dissuaded from suicide by a stranger he decides to…

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