Trudi is now eighteen. She has a place at Cambridge University to study medicine, but instead she arrives in Paris to enroll in the Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty of the Sorbonne under the influence of Simon, and is living in an apartment in his Paris mansion. Her benefactor, Simon de Beauvonne may have his own agenda, and his life is complicated with an haute couture house to manage and an estate to run. His wife hates Trudi. Why? Somehow Trudi manages to attract friends who can help her study in the extremely competitive Sorbonne, but it is all hard work. If Simon loves her, how will he...

Trudi has survived nearly three years as a medical student in Paris. Simon, Comte de Beauvonne, her benefactor, is feeling insecure after his heart attack. His first wife of what was supposed to be a marriage of convenience, has died and there are questions to be answered. Trudi has demanded that her marriage remains secret out of respect for the deceased Catherine. While Simon recovers, Trudi has seized the reins of the Beauvonne empire and has set about running it efficiently.

One of the most incomprehensible aspects of human behaviour is changing sex. Who in their right mind would want to go through all that? What man would want to have their penis removed or woman have no breasts? Most who have had such operations have suffered severe trauma from the event, but for transsexuals it is a matter of release from imprisonment in a body that seems totally alien. Some men might venture out dressed as a female as a bit of a dare, a jolly jape, secure in the knowledge that they are men. Some act as women without actually wanting to be female or are transvestites, getting...

Tina lives in North London. Her father left home seven years ago and Tina has only vague remembrances of him. Her mother is fully occupied with the bare of a man she has brought into the house, Graham, a strong arm man for a London gang. Tina hates him, the more so because she finds his behaviour to her and to her mother unbearable. He is free with his hand, a slap here and even worse, a caress. As Graham's attentions increase Tina starts to panic. She like many of her acquaintances, decides to run from this unsatisfactory house which is no longer a home. She runs to Paris, and finds work and...

Breakdown. Alexander's parents have died in a mysterious car crash in the Alps. Alex, already in a poor psychological state, repressed, and self-harming has had a breakdown. What makes things worse is that his father was on the verge of bankruptcy and leaves no estate. Alex is left penniless. He has left university where he studies fashion and stays with his eccentric aunt and uncle. He realises that he needs to resume his education and be with younger people and his old friend Gemma offers him a room in the house she shares with two other girls. Alex meets the perceptive, rich and exciting...

This is the fictional account of a girl born a boy, from toddler to young adult, and her journey of discovery to find her real identity. The scene moves from Surrey to Cambridge to Lincolnshire, where her duel life as Tim and Trudi is discovered by Vanessa, woman of the World and ex runway model, who becomes young Trudi's real life fairy godmother. The scene moves on to France and Italy, but it is the adventures in Paris with the characters of the haute couture trade and above all, her meeting with Simon de Beauvonne, suave and sad, that are to alter her life forever. There are depictions of...

Sienna Chambers is an unfortunate girl. Her father died in a road accident four years ago and her mother hasn't been able to recover from the tragedy. Sienna is almost sixteen and has to wrestle with a mother who is grief stricken and look after herself and work towards her ambition to be a doctor. She has set herself an difficult target, of achieving a medical degree from Cambridge University. It seems that fate is against her, trouble in school and trouble from the Children's Department and an assault charge hanging over her. It is a good thing she has friends especially Jennie, but Sienna...