Benton Ross, 1988. Shelfwear visible and creasing to spine. Heavy fading to spine.

As a young boy in Taumarunui, New Zealand, Trevor Rupe was devastated when his mother told him that he couldn't be a nun when he grew up. Trevor also dreamed of being a film star but in his dreams he was always a female star.

In this vivid autobiography, Carmen spares nothing in telling of her life as a schoolboy, a Maori, a male prostitute, a transsexual,a nightclub and coffee lounge owner, an entertainer, a military training conscript, a prisoner, a benefactor and counsellor, a candidate for the Wellington mayoralty, a confidante of the famous and infamous, and a woman who was once a man...