The Partnership

What happens when the establishment lawyer son of a prominent WASP family and a baker, the son of Catholic Italian immigrants team up together while going through sex changes? How their families and employers react, legal issues and the law partnership, the variable factors between different family members, the issues surrounding divorce all have a part. The tragedy of a family member who contracts AIDS, the hippie couple, the lesbian marriage, the uppercrust club reactions all contribute background to the central story of Paul who becomes Paula and finds romance and, Mario who becomes Maria and starts a business empire. 


This fictional story depends for its accuracy on the author’s experience as a counsellor and a first hand knowledge of the subject which is told with compassion, humanity, understanding, dignity and humour.