The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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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

Critics Review

  • 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

  • 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

  • I loved this book – Rhyannon doesn’t just shine a light on this subject, she sets off a bloody fireworks display

    Cherry Healey

  • 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

  • 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

  • A wonderful asset to our community

    Caroline Tula, Trans icon, model and Bond girl

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