None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebbecca Pine : The Story of a Changing Life

by Reg McKay

Until he reached the age of 64, Robert J. Pine had led a life that was both ordinary and extraordinary. Born into a middle class family in suburban England, Pine grew up concealing a secret passion. Throughout his years as a public schoolboy, a soldier, an actor, a teacher, a sales manager, an artist, a husband, a father, a divorcee and a grandfather, he was always asking himself the same question: "Who am I?" He had done what society had expected of him: he had girlfriends, he got married, he had children; yet whenever he could, het tried to discover who her eally was, secretly dressing as a woman. None so Pretty is the incredible story of Robert's traumatic transformation into Revecca and the shockwaves his new persona causes in his peaceful English village. It is also a love story, as Jean, his wife, struggles to accept the changes in their lives, and the story of strength in the face of adversity, of the courage to be true to oneself, and of faith in human nature.

Genres: Gender

192 pages, Hardcover

First published March 25, 1999

Reviews

[Tich McKay · Rating 3 out of 5]

A person being themselves and facing only a small amount of red-neck hell.

I have been to the town and met the person - the situation should really have been twighlight zone material - but humans often surprise.