This book was SO GOOD! Woman 99 is a brilliant, gripping story from an incredibly talented writer. 19th century San Francisco. Charlotte’s sister, Phoebe is committed to a local asylum when she tries to interfere in her mother’s matrimonial scheming. Charlotte hatches an heroic but extremely naive plan to get herself committed under a false […]
mental illness
How to get better at asking R U OK any day of the year
by Helen Davis R U OK? Day was the perfect chance to reflect on how we speak to our children about mental health. Many parents struggle to broach the topic with their kids, especially when they’re going through those tricky teenage years. But the truth is, if you can build emotional vocabulary from an early […]
Review: Turtles All The Way Down, by John Green
I feel like writing a ‘review’ of a John Green book shouldn’t be a thing. Really there should just be a transmitted interruption to life everywhere that says, in big, bold black letters: JOHN GREEN HAS RELEASED A NEW BOOK. GO READ IT NOW. And yet, here I am. If you’ve been hiding under a […]