Emmanuel’s debut novel Wild Geese, which won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Winner for best transgender fiction, and just won a Society of Authors award, too, is a quiet reminder: away from headlines, panel show debates and political discourse, trans people are living their lives.
The novel follows Phoebe Ford, a 30-year-old Irish woman and PhD candidate living in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. She’s three years into her gender transition, and after moving away from her family and complex relationship with her pre-transition life in Ireland, is seeing the world and her place in it for the first time.
Now that Phoebe has become Phoebe, she’s savouring the small life she’s created for herself. She’s chopping vegetables for dinner. She’s watching TV in the evening with a glass of wine. She’s keeping her skittish dog, Dolly, alive.
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Soula Emmanuel 