"The point of this funny yet unsettling autobiography by a provocative artist who emerged in his twenties as a potter and a transvestite, is that we don’t have to fit in. It’s a lifeline for young boys who feel different."
"Wendy Jones is the author of The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions, Unexpected Answers, and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, the Biography of Grayson Perry as well as two novels: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals, and The World is a Wedding. She also writes for television.
She has a PhD from Goldsmiths in Creative Writing and the books of Studs Terkel, and was the first person to be awarded the MA in Life Writing at the University of East Anglia. She lives in London.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Mail, Vogue, and Elle, among others, and her books have been published in eleven languages."
