Ellen Mellor had been female her entire life.

It just took her until she was 43 to finally realise it although she'd worked out that she was a geek at a far earlier age.

In Tea, Comics and Gender she recalls her life, showing all the events (or at least all the ones she can remember) where her true gender showed itself.

Tea, Comics and Gender is a funny, truthful, honest and intimate memoir of one woman growing up in the late twentieth century thinking she was first a boy and then a man before finally getting her act together.

Ellen Mellor is a trans woman just trying to get on in life. Her mantra is 'So many books, so many comics, so much tea' and it is a hill upon which she is prepared to die. Or at least have an intense discussion about it. She reads insatiably and will try almost anything although her main interests are in science fiction and fantasy. She also reads comic books and has a collection that is really far too large. Ellen lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She has one child, an ex-wife, a cat and a library that threatens to collapse in on itself and form a literary black hole.