
Her Name Is Alice
Author: Caroline Litman
Narrator: Caroline Litman
Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03/13/2025

Author: Caroline Litman
Narrator: Caroline Litman
Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03/13/2025
thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review! <3 ’I don’t need certificates or medals to find ways to talk about Alice. Her attributes alone do her justice’ Her Name is Alice is a poignant, heartbreaking and important look at the life and death of Alice Litman......more
I always give honest reviews but if I wrote about this book as honest as I usually am I think I may look like a horrible person to people who have not read it yet. Caroline lost her child to suicide, the pain she and her family must of gone through doesn’t bare thinking about. Alice was totally let d......more
I'm not trans. I'm not nonbinary. I don't have kids. I know the grief of losing a relative to suicide but that was sudden and unexpected. What I don't know is the turmoil and heartache that must be involved in seeing what may be coming and feeling unable to stop the decline. Caroline Litman does two......more
I was sent a copy of Her Name Is Alice by Caroline Litman to read and review by NetGalley. I requested this book because I myself have a 21 year old transgender child. Though heartbreaking this memoir is beautifully written, with alternating chapters between then and now which I believe was the very......more
I had to pause reading this book because of the court ruling, it was a little to much and I felt a bit helpless. I think it’s important for CIS Women to read this book (for reference I am a cis woman), and to understand Alices life and what she had to go through, how many hoops she had to try and ju......more
'An inspirational mother, story and book' Ella Morgan 'A mother-daughter love story about fighting a world stacked against you. Brilliant and super relevant.' India Willoughby ‘A tragic, defiant story beautifully and deftly told. A timely reminder that the victims of the relentless culture wars are real people with real lives who love each other with unimaginable intensity. Life's complicated, and we do it a disservice to reduce it to cheap soundbites. Caroline's elegy illustrates this perfectly.’ Paul Sinha 'An urgent, powerful call for people to be trusted, supported and cared for – in their gender identities, and as themselves. With searing honesty, Litman reveals the damage done to people and their loved ones when uninformed hostility subsumes understanding, and kindness.' Elinor Cleghorn 'It feels inadequate to say how brave she is, in the living of the experience and then the honest, raw recounting of it. Her voice is as clear as a bell and she shares a powerful insight into a system so ineffective and broken it feels pointless. Breathtakingly awful and compelling with glimmers of hope in the conclusion.' Lucy Brazier 'Heart-breaking – also incredibly important. By telling frankly the story of her daughter's life, Caroline shines an unyielding, necessary light on the devastating impact of transphobia, and the urgent need for broader understanding of the emotional reality of trans lives.' John McCullough 'An intimate reflection on a mother-daughter relationship that is frank and heartbreaking. Caroline bravely shares how her own prejudice towards transgender people impacted how she treated Alice when she came out, showing us that it is possible for people to change their views. While the NHS trans healthcare system is moving in the wrong direction to prevent further tragedies like Alice's death, we can still hope that this book helps other parents to love their trans kids as fiercely as Caroline loves Alice.' Vic Parsons