This is one of the most extraordinary books I've read... It's harrowing in parts, it's glorious in it's descriptions and heart-warming with it's gentle romance and deep love. Took me on a journey that made me realise the importance of being who we are and recognising that acceptance, tolerance and understanding should be applied in every aspect of our lives. Amazon Customer

...totally gripped from start to finish. Hamer’s writing was so vivid and evocative it transported me to another time and place. She doesn’t shy away from the violence and fear of a life as a transgender women in Victorian times but the book is also full of love, hope and joy. Everyone should read this book! Jai Mackenzie

...This book will pull you in and let you feel the emotions of the central character. Truly a portal into a world that a lot of us don't understand, but we as humans need to... deeply touching. Elaine Simpson

Her feelings, thoughts, and tentative steps to realizing her dream caused me to reflect on my own childhood, a rare achievement in a work of fiction... HW Coyle

I think anyone, trans or not, will enjoy this! Caroline M Mathieson

...I just absolutely adore Emmeline as a character; intelligent, resourceful, creative and with big heart... my only complaint is that it had to end. Lily Nichole Robinson

...very quickly became totally enthralled... a real page turner to be read almost at a sitting. Robyn Hoode

This is undoubtedly a precursor to a very bright future for the author, well written, broad scope fully intriguing and believable in all ways... a true romantic novel with the grit and love, violence and desperation... I was smitten with the main character and found her totally believable and very relatable... Jar

...just a great, gripping story, wonderful characters, and a perfect ending. LibrarianCyn

This is not just a book for trans people, it is a book for everyone who has struggled with feeling different, worthless, not good enough, and for everyone lucky enough to have never had those feelings this book will make you more understanding. Amazon Customer

...this book instilled genuine fear and excitement and a whole spectrum of emotions I haven't felt from reading a book in the past. And the realism and accuracy truly made it hard to stop reading... This book has genuinely left me stunned and changed my life as a trans woman myself. Salem

In 1874, at the age of four-and-a-half, Thomas Stanton realises that ‘Thomas’ is a boy's name and that everyone, even her mother, thinks she’s a boy.

So begins the extraordinary journey of a transgender girl who must not only try to understand what it means to be a girl inside the body of a boy, a century before there was even a name for it, but she must soon find some way to change her body before the horror of puberty casts her as a man forever.

This is one girl's breathtaking fight to survive as herself, and to be loved for who she is.