Her Name Is Alice - My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

''Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.'' Richard Beard ''An intimate, beautifully told memoir'' Elinor Cleghorn When my third child was born, I was told I had a boy. The baby was given a boy''s name and raised in that gender. But when she died, twenty years later, she died as my daughter, and will forever be remembered that way. Alice Litman died by suicide in May 2022, aged just twenty years old, having already waited almost three years for her first appointment at a gender identity clinic. In stunningly beautiful prose, Caroline Litman captures the realities of an often-messy journey navigating both her daughter''s transition and the days, weeks and months after Alice''s death. Searing, urgent and utterly unique, Her Name is Alice is the raw, human story of a mother''s love and grief for her child - and of a young trans woman who is impossible to forget and who must be remembered.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Litman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2025
• EAN: 9780008667931
• ISBN: 978-0-00-866793-1
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, Mental health services, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, Medical & healthcare law, Sociology: death and dying, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, Sociology: Death & Dying, Medical and healthcare law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, LGBTQ+ topics: coming out, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Gender studies: transgender & intersex