Katherine’s Diary

“I think that I was irrational, even insane, at the time. My transsexualism had taken hold of me with such obsessive force that I could not concentrate on anything else. There I was, a fifty-year-old professional academic librarian who had desperately wanted to be female ever since memories began …”


In 1986 John Cummings became Katherine Cummings and a whole life changed. 


In this painfully honest account of John’s transformation into a woman, Katherine tells of years of fantasising behind locked doors, of the betrayal felt by her family and the final relief of surgery.


Katherine’s Diary covers a lifetime of self-discovery and self-destruction told with acerbic wit and crisp observation.