Kirjahaku

When Christina wakes after a crash, she finds she has her brother's body. She struggles to come to terms with being six foot two and male but delights in the sudden freedom from the responsibilities of being a wife and mother - until things start to go wrong. This book will make you wonder what it means to be male or female and what it means to be a wife. This story will make a good book club book as it invites discussion and debate. You will love it or hate it.

This small collection of some of the author's short stories and poems mostly stem from personal experience, from taking risks with online dating (Dust, J.E.E. and Parallel Magnolias), wishing she was brave enough to climb the mast (Climbing the Mast) and having a hysterectomy in Trinidad (I left my womb in Chaguaramus), to reflecting on approaching the end of life and choosing what to do with a gift of three wishes (Autumn Wishes). Speculation on what it means to be male or female led to a brother and sister swapping bodies (Criss-Cross), wondering if Eve took the first bite of the apple (Eve Bites First) and to an alien planet (Tripos) where there are eighteen possible different genders and no expectations of how individuals should behave on the basis of their biology. Bridget Arregger is an experienced writer with three educational books in print in her previous name as Bridget Adams. Her favourite genre is speculative fiction that includes sci-fi, fantasy and dreams.