Becoming Drusilla
Subtitle: one life, two friends, three genders
By: Richard Beard.
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781846550676
Subjects: Beard, Richard, -- 1967- -- Friends and associates.; Sex change -- Great Britain.; Male-to-female transsexuals -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motorcycling friend Drew. They would spend a few days walking, camping, cycling, canoeing - outdoor, manly fun - before returning to everyday life: wives, children, jobs. Richard was writing novels. Drew was working in the engine room of cross-channel passenger ferries. Then one year Drew phoned to announce a complication: he was planning to have a sex change." "This is the story of how Drew became Dru, of a friendship, of a fortnight's walking holiday after Dru's operation. And of how what we think we know about ourselves, our friends, and our families can turn out to be very, very wide of the mark. It's about secrets and preconceptions and confronting prejudices you didn't know you had." "Becoming Drusilla is by turns warm, sad, funny but always human; it holds up a mirror to the extraordinary in outwardly ordinary lives."--BOOK JACKET.