The New Girl

A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

Rhyannon Styles

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Headline Book Publishing
30 January 2018

Memoirs; Gender studies, gender groups

'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith

'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent

The remarkable 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, reflecting on her past and charting her incredible journey from male to female. A heart-wrenching, raw, frank, funny and utterly moving celebration of life.

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 chose Rhyannon. At the age of thirty she began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self.

Rhyannon holds nothing back in THE NEW GIRL, a heartbreakingly honest telling of her life. Through her catastrophic lows and incredible highs, she paints a glorious technicolour picture of what it's like to be transgender. From cabaret drag acts, brushes with celebrity and Parisian clown school, to struggles with addiction and crippling depression, Rhyannon's story is like nothing you've read before.

Narrated with searing honesty, humour and poignancy, THE NEW GIRL is a powerful book about being true to ourselves, for anyone who's ever felt a little lost.

By: Rhyannon Styles
Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 271g
ISBN: 9781472242587
ISBN 10: 1472242580
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 January 2018
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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-styles Website: www.rhyannonstyles.com Twitter: @rhyannonstyles Instagram: @rhyannon_styles YouTube: /RStyles

Reviews for The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

I watched Rhyannon Styles begin as the most inspiring and heart-wrenching cocoon I ever saw and now she is a glorious butterfly - Paloma Faith Love Rhyannon. Love this book. Everything you've ever wondered about transition, cocooned in an epic tale of fleeing suburbia and big city fabulousness - Grace Dent I loved this book - Rhyannon doesn't just shine a light on this subject, she sets off a bloody fireworks display - Cherry Healey I am changed for having read this - congratulations, Rhyannon, on a bold life that inspires and lifts - the world needed this truth - Laura Jane Williams Proud to be holding this book ... The best and worst of times in a wonderful memoir - Sunday Times