None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebecca Pine: The Story of a Changing Life by Reg McKay

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Until he reached the age of 64, Robert J. Pine had led a life that was both ordinary and extraordinary. Born into a middle class family in suburban England, Pine grew up concealing a secret passion. Throughout his years as a public schoolboy, a soldier, an actor, a teacher, a sales manager, an artist, a husband, a father, a divorcee and a grandfather, he was always asking himself the same question: "Who am I?" He had done what society had expected of him: he had girlfriends, he got married, he had children; yet whenever he could, het tried to discover who her eally was, secretly dressing as a woman. None so Pretty is the incredible story of Robert's traumatic transformation into Rebecca and the shockwaves his new persona causes in his peaceful English village. It is also a love story, as Jean, his wife, struggles to accept the changes in their lives, and the story of strength in the face of adversity, of the courage to be true to oneself, and of faith in human nature.

Booknews

Because he was so traditional in his life choices up to that point?>working as a teacher, performing as a husband and father, and maintaining an active social life with his wife within the small Scottish community where they lived?>Robert Pine's story of changing his sex to a woman at age 64 is an interesting one. The bulk of the book traces Robert's life before he became Rebecca, his desire to dress like a woman, and his confusion about identity. One must wish he had found a better biographer, as McKay (a social worker and freelance journalist) tends to the syrupy in her writing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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