Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman

by JuliaGrant (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.30

  In 1981 George Roberts underwent a sex-change operation and became Julia Grant, but after emergency treatment things started to go drastically wrong. Beginning with a traumatic childhood of abuse, prostitution and crime, culminating in a series of prison sentences, and then following the futile attempts to come to terms with a male body, this book goes beyond the New English Library publication George and Julia , and recounts what happened after the unsuccessful operation. Julia tells how her theatrical career took off, and then was destroyed; how she left Britain for Amsterdam; and how she finally returned to the stage in a cabaret act, The Bitch is Back . The book highlights the difficulties faced by transsexuals in Britain, and includes lists of useful addresses and help-lines.