![]() I actually bought this book over a year ago now, after it had been shortlisted for last year’s Orange Prize, and for some reason it has taken me until now to read it! I loved the idea of the novel – of getting a glimpse into the mind of a hermaphrodite, of which I knew very little about.Īt first I was completely taken with Winter’s writing she certainly has a gift for pulling you into a story that makes you feel very unsettled, but at the same time compelled to keep reading. The changes that follow are momentous not just for him, but for the three adults that have guarded his secret. As Wayne approaches adulthood, and its emotional and physical demands, the woman inside him begins to cry out. ![]() But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self – a girl he thinks of as ‘Annabel’ – is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. ![]() Only three people share the secret – the baby’s parents and a trusted neighbour. ![]() In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. ![]()
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