The New Woman

*A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick 2015*





'A poignant tale of one person's transgender journey.' - Heat



Luke Livingstone is a lucky man. He's a respected solicitor, a father and grandfather, a pillar of the community. He has a loving wife and an idyllic home in the Oxfordshire countryside. Yet Luke is struggling with an unbearable secret, and it's threatening to destroy him.



All his life, Luke has hidden the truth about himself and his identity. It's a truth so fundamental that it will shatter his family, rock his community and leave him outcast. But Luke has nowhere left to run, and to continue living, he must become the person - the woman - he knows himself to be, whatever the cost.

'Move over Jodi Picoult. New Zealand-based author Charity Norman has the same clever knack of taking an issue and examining it from all angles, to see the effect it has on everyone involved.' New Zealand Herald



Charity Norman was born in Uganda and brought up in successive draughty vicarages in Yorkshire and Birmingham. After several years' travel she became a barrister, specialising in crime and family law. In 2002, realising that her three children had barely met her, she took a break from the law and moved with her family to New Zealand. Her second novel After the Fall was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club. The New Woman is her fourth novel.



Find Charity on Facebook at facebook.com/charitynormanauthor and on Twitter as @charitynorman1



A poignant tale of one person's transgender journey.



Completely brilliant - you won't be able to turn the pages fast enough.



I shouted at this novel. I cast it away, abandoned, only to return to its beguiling pages.



This is the author's fourth book and although I've said it before, it's her best. I can't wait to see what subject she'll tackle next.



Charity Norman traces the effects with skill and sensitivity in a convincing and often moving novel.



The New Woman is an extremely moving story that examines what it is to live with gender identity disorder... You will find this a compelling read that will keep you turning the pages until the very end.



Move over Jodi Picoult. New Zealand-based author Charity Norman has the same clever knack of taking an issue and examining it from all angles, to see the effect it has on everyone involved.



This is another wonderful and very thought-provoking story that I consumed in a single day.



Engrossing.



A gripping tale that would appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and Joanna Trollope... A page turning book to while away a winter's evening.



Jodi Picoult had better look over her shoulder - she's got a new contender by the name of Charity Norman.



Easy to read, hard to put down, it'll move you to tears.



Will appeal to devotees of Joanna Trollope and Jodi Picoult... [Norman] is hot on their heels.