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His Name is Rebecca
Eamon Tallon was happy to be different, preferring cut-out dolls to footballs, the Bunty to the Beano. Then his life was shattered when, from the age of seven, he was sexually abused at a school run by a religious order.
His journey to find himself – or herself, as it turned out – was long and tortuous. As “Eamon” he got married – he chose the wedding dress and the honeymoon was a clothes-shopping spree in London. As “Ross”, a gifted hairdresser, he lived as a gay man. Eventually he arrived at the truth: “he” was a woman in a man's body.
Rebecca was the first transgender in Ireland to have a full sex change.
But there were many other ‘lives’ to be lived – madam in a male brothel in Amsterdam, abused wife, heroin addict in London, night-club hostess Lady V in Dublin – before Rebecca finally found happiness, success, and a granddaughter she never knew she had.
This is the inspiring story of a woman who fought for fulfilment and found it, against all odds.
His journey to find himself – or herself, as it turned out – was long and tortuous. As “Eamon” he got married – he chose the wedding dress and the honeymoon was a clothes-shopping spree in London. As “Ross”, a gifted hairdresser, he lived as a gay man. Eventually he arrived at the truth: “he” was a woman in a man's body.
Rebecca was the first transgender in Ireland to have a full sex change.
But there were many other ‘lives’ to be lived – madam in a male brothel in Amsterdam, abused wife, heroin addict in London, night-club hostess Lady V in Dublin – before Rebecca finally found happiness, success, and a granddaughter she never knew she had.
This is the inspiring story of a woman who fought for fulfilment and found it, against all odds.
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305 pages, Paperback
First published March 2, 2011
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April 5, 2013
Heart reanching but so, so funny. Forget any preconceptions you have about "true life stories" and read this book. Available direct from Poolbeg or Amazon. Unfortunately not available for e readers yet.
June 3, 2025
Harrowing at times, but equally life-affirming, this is one of the best memoirs I've read in years.
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July 22, 2018wow what a powerful book especially the end what she went through and how she is still alive today well worth reading
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