[AnnieBL]

Thanks for bringing that book to our attention, Annie. I found it on Amazon marketplace and ordered a used copy for a good price. The book summary sounds very interesting. I wonder how many children are born with both male and female sex organs, have surgical alterations made, and not told about it.

Clara

I know that you've made a later post on this but it was in another thread and I can't for now find it. Having deprived myself of sleep for several nights I have now finished reading the book. Aside from anything else I was intrigued as to how the author would manage to close the story. Gender issues apart, I found it a marvellous book, beautifully written with wonderful descriptions of the Labrador landscape and remarkable human understanding and respect for her characters. There seems to be something here for everyone. Oddly perhaps it invited comparison in my mind with my favourite book of all, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, which also has outstanding evocations of landscape and place, and in which the animal characters had very human virtues and failings. Annabel has a much broader canvas and a much more adult approach to real life, including managing to imbue her protagonist with episodes of dysphoria of kinds to which I can relate,