Annabel
By: Kathleen Winter
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780224091275
Subjects: Intersex people; Gender identity; Fiction
Description: In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador in the far north-east of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.
Notes: A novel.