Andrew considered himself a freak of nature. His transgender condition was not his choice, he just developed that way. It had caused him great distress as a child, especially as he approached puberty. After all, boys just want to be boys.

At fourteen, with his feminine attributes increasingly difficult to conceal, he is bullied and persecuted by almost everyone until, gathering all his courage, he flees his home in England and makes his way to France.

Alone and desperate, on the streets of Paris, he is befriended by Michelle, a young prostitute, and given shelter in her brothel, under the protection of the madam, Madame Leclerc. From here he is rescued and adopted by Virginia Montcalm, a bohemian artist. She and the youngest of her three daughters, take him to their home in the south, near the historic city of Carcassonne, where, with the love and support of his new family, Andrew begins to blossom, intellectually, physically and sexually.

Reluctantly at first, but encouraged by Ginny's daughters, he decides to accept what nature has made him and transforms into the stunningly beautiful, Alice Montcalm.

The hand of fate touches Alice again, in Bavaria during the fateful summer of 1971, where she meets the enigmatic Beate, the owner of a chain of sex supermarkets. Beate, an ex Lufwaffe pilot, introduces her to the joy of flight and offers her a job as a glamour model. Her natural beauty and sexuality brings her the fame and fortune that she needs to found, Aerospatial Montcalm, a powerful technological empire, with the ultimate objective of a manned return to the moon.

However, when her true nature and capability is revealed, she is viewed as a threat to the Illuminati, a secret cabal of people bent on world domination, and put under constant surveillance.

Her spaceflight becomes the most controversial reality television show ever, and when its true purpose is betrayed, Alice soon finds that nothing is easy and never safe. 

This story is entertaining, titillating and thought provoking with something of interest for adults of all genders. It is set against a background of real events, weaving fact and fiction around the post war technological revolution in electronics aviation and spaceflight.

This is a most unusual debut novel and must be read to be fully appreciated. Read it, full page, on the BookBuzzr gadget.

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