"Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted. The reader
has been invited to a sleepover at the asylum, a night in which
five-year old girls drift alone through the wards, where the
mentally unstable do sit-ups when nobody is watching and where
heaven is a place between "the sky and the planets" reserved for
those with personality disorders. This collection will be a
home-to-home for sufferers and a journey through terrible night for
those who've been fortunate enough to take the non-scenic route in
life. Melissa Lee-Houghton significantly moves us on from any
romanticising notion of the 'mad' poet driven through suffering to
achieve their full genius. Mental suffering is here shown in all
its nocturnal and diurnal detail: the nurses, the drugs, the lack
of sleep; the disconnect from the yearned-for true self. Beautiful
Girls will survive as a testament to poetry's force in overcoming."
- Chris McCabe
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