The New Girl A Trans Girl Tells It L..., Rhyannon Styles
The New Girl A Trans Girl Tells It L..., Rhyannon Styles
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The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

Author: Rhyannon Styles

Narrator: Rhyannon Styles

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 06/01/2017


Synopsis

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

About Rhyannon Styles

Rhyannon Styles is a journalist, performance artist and musician. Her ground-breaking Elle column, 'The New Girl', charts her journey from male to female, where she bares all about her experience of transitioning. In her colourful life as a performer, career highlights include a show at the Guggenheim Museum NYC, dancing with Kylie Minogue on ITV and rollerskating naked at the Barbican art gallery. A star of the transgender community, Rhyannon was name-checked on Independent's Rainbow List as 'One to Watch'. Get up close and personal with Rhyannon online:Elle column: www.elleuk.com/tags/rhyannon-stylesWebsite: www.rhyannonstyles.comTwitter: @rhyannonstylesInstagram: @rhyannon_stylesYouTube: /RStyles


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

As a trans woman I approached this memoir broadly supporting the voice Rhyannon gives to the community. Yet on the other hand much of the details of transitioning aren't new to me. This book works best as an explainer for some basic trans concepts for people who don't really know anyone who's going......more

Goodreads review by Noina

I found the first half of this book to be extremely boring, with too many details about parties, outfits and shows, but thankfully the second part was much more touching, informative, reflexive, and very interesting overall. I listened to the last 5 hours in one day, whereas the first 3 hours took m......more

Goodreads review by Zac

To begin with the writing style felt clunky and didn't seem to flow very well, but I got into it as the book went on. Rhyannon takes us through her life in a whirl of performances and drugs. The first half of her book covers her career as an artist, while the second takes a darker tone and discussin......more

Goodreads review by Alice

For me this book didn’t feel particularly well written, but I must applaud the bravery and courage it has taken Rhyannon to transition, and in turn to share her transition through this autobiography. I did find the final section of the book problematic - her commentary on “trans people finally getti......more


Quotes

I watched Rhyannon Styles begin as the most inspiring and heart-wrenching cocoon I ever saw and now she is a glorious butterfly

Love Rhyannon. Love this book. Everything you've ever wondered about transition, cocooned in an epic tale of fleeing suburbia and big city fabulousness

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

I am changed for having read this - congratulations, Rhyannon, on a bold life that inspires and lifts - the world needed this truth

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

A wonderful asset to our community

Proud to be holding this book ... The best and worst of times in a wonderful memoir

Rhyannon is such a great ambassador for the trans community. She writes with such class while also keeping it super real. I've got a book coming out later this year and all I'm saying is I'm glad my book isn't a memoir, because I'd hate to have to compete with this

Rhyannon Styles journey of transition is fraught with the unique issues of her generation. Honest and unflinching, she walks the tightrope of uncertainty with confidence in the unknowing. A modern Artemis in the queer wilderness, midwifing her own becoming

A deeply honest and candid memoir ... In a beautifully moving account of her life, Rhyannon left us captured until the very last page Marie Claire South Africa