Carrie Kills a Man is a funny, insightful and highly relatable account of navigating the choppy waters of starting again when you thought you knew who you were. It is both a personal, deeply moving and life affirming story of one woman’s journey towards happiness and herself but also an accessible, heartfelt rallying cry for trans’ rights. Carrie Kills A Man * is about growing up in a world that doesn’t want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life.

I think being Scottish means I’m just naturally drawn to that – we Scots are brilliant at mining comedy from pretty dark seams sometimes, and we’ll tell the most horrendously embarrassing stories to make our friends laugh. As a recently-out-as-enby person there's a lot to which I was furiously nodding along, but this book has such broad appeal beyond queer audiences.It also highlights the difficulties in every aspect of her life that Carrie has encountered along the way - from casual misgendering, to deliberate and outright aggression.

My debut novel Coffin Dodgers hit the Kindle in June 2011, and I've written lots of non-fiction books too. Most importantly of all, it’s enabled me to meet lots of book people, who are of course the best people.Would recommend to give to anyone who is unsure of what is happening in Scotland in regards to trans rights. Carrie's stories about her early fashion mishaps had me roaring with laughter - 'bondage potato' literally had me weeping, and chuckling hours later. Touching on topics from coming out to trans parenthood, fashion disasters and pop culture icons, Carrie’s memoir is both frank and funny. From coming out and navigating trans parenthood to the thrills of gender-bending pop stars, fashion disasters and looking like Velma Dinkley, this is a tale of ripping it up and starting again: Carrie’s story in all its fearless, frank and funny glory. Another recommendation from a Book Club friend, this time for non-fiction (also realising January is becoming a month of pink covers).

It’s also about the power of music and of friendship, the joy of being your best self and what it’s like to go out looking like the sole survivor of a terrible accident in a clown factory. i loved the nods to glasgow throughout and it educated me further on trans issues in scotland/the uk.This book is a must read for everyone but especially for all the facts, figures and waiting times about Trans healthcare. It's amazing to see how the impacts of social media and the Internet have changed so negatively too.

Things feel really dark right now, but there’s a huge generational shift happening and it’s really beautiful to see. Carrie kills a man is Carrie Marshall's account of her experiences from coming out as transsexual and how her life changed when she embraced this part of her life. I’m sad that someone I have known for almost 20 years went through so much while hiding her true self, but happy that she’s now in a place of strength and empowerment. Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn't want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life.I was lucky enough to get my copy and have it signed by Carrie herself at its launch last month and have been really excited to read it since.