Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself

Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.

Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy…

From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.

Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to …

• A story about identity, gender, prejudice and the search for belonging: this is the ultimate story for our times

• Both wrenchingly moving and very funny

• For fans of Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman, Grayson Perry’s The Descent of Man, Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive and Juno Dawson’s The Gender Games

• A love letter from a son to a mother – with a heartwarming message of hope and forgiveness

Competition: Diary of a Drag Queen, Queer Intentions, Drag The Complete Story, Guru, Naturally Tan, Over the Top, Me Elton John, We Have Always Been Here, Opposite of Loneliness. Crystal Rasmussen, Rupaul, Bianca Del Rio, Michelle Visage, Amelia Abraham, Trixie Matell, Katya, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness