The book is the story of a man who grew up in the '50s and '60s, got married, and fathered five children, knowing all the while that he was really a woman.vIt recounts the physical, emotional, and social struggles that she endured to remain true to herself, to her family, and to her faith as she became the woman she had always known herself to be.
Janet Manne was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. She grew up biologically male in the 1950s and 1960s, got married, fathered five children, knowing all the while that she was really a woman. After much personal struggle and through many external obstacles Janet at last underwent gender reassignment surgery to become physically the woman she knew herself to be.