His Name Is Rebecca

Description

Eamon Tallon was happy to be different, preferring cut-out dolls to footballs, the Bunty to the Beano. Then his life was shattered when, from the age of seven, he was sexually abused at a school run by a religious order. His journey to find himself ‘ or herself, as it turned out ‘ was long and tortuous. As ‘Eamon’ he got married ‘ he chose the wedding dress and the honeymoon was a clothes-shopping spree in London. As ‘Ross’, a gifted hairdresser, he lived as a gay man. Eventually he arrived at the truth: ‘he’ was a woman in a man’s body. Rebecca was the first transgender in Ireland to have a full sex change. But there were many other ‘lives’ to be lived ‘ madam in a male brothel in Amsterdam, abused wife, heroin addict in London, night-club hostess Lady V in Dublin ‘ before Rebecca finally found happiness, success, and a granddaughter she never knew she had. This is the inspiring story of a woman who fought for fulfilment and found it, against all odds.