How to be a Girl

<p><b>** Includes foreword from Susie Green CEO of charity Mermaids ** </b><br><br><i><b>Mama something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. </b></i><br><br>When Marlo Mack's three year old says these words she's not surprised - but she's completely unprepared. Marlo gave birth to a beautiful baby boy - M - and brushed his pleas for pink clothes and dresses aside as a young child's playful experimentation with gender. But when her son begs to be put back in her tummy because he came out wrong she knows she must listen more closely.<br><br><i>How to Be a Girl</i> is a raw and unflinching memoir of a mother grappling with her child's transition. Always wanting to support M Marlo - whose podcast of the same name has over 1.3 million downloads - finds her liberal values surprisingly challenged and as she learns more about gender and its varied expressions she questions what being a girl - or a boy or something else entirely - really means.</p>