The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes

Bloomsbury £20

This is an ambitious book, weighing in at more than 400 pages. It is advertised as ‘the untold story of Ewan Forbes (1912-91) and the landmark case that rocked British society and transformed the trans experience to this day’.

I thought I was being asked to review a book specifically about Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, who, as his obituary put it, ‘was born on Sept 6 1912 and baptised Elizabeth