Frances thinks she is a character in a book which she is writing. The more she writes, the more fiction seems to change reality
Can you 'write yourself well'? And if you don't like the story life has written for you, can you really change it? Can you re-write the past?
Frances Nolan is a young girl with a problem. She's been doing too much reading. So much, in fact, that she believes that she's a character in a book that she's creating.
As the old psychiatric hospitals begin to close, new treatments vie with old techniques for treating mental illness. Will writing therapy cure a teenage girl who thinks that she's a character from fiction? Or will other treatments win the day?
“Tell all the truth, but tell it slant, advised Emily Dickinson: Tim Atkinson does exactly that in this beautifully-angled novel about growing up and breaking down.”
Richard Coles, Broadcaster and Anglican Priest