This episode I chat with writer, performer and children's author Laura Dockrill.

We talk about our time on the performance poetry scene, how working with a live audience teaches you to edit, writing for children, and finally about the experiences that informed Laura's new book, WHAT HAVE I DONE? Laura talks frankly about her experience of becoming a mother - a traumatic birth, sleep deprivation and ultimately, post-partum psychosis, that led to her being separated from her child and placed on a psychiatric ward.

You can pick up a copy of WHAT HAVE I DONE? here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Laura-Dockrill/What-Have-I-Done--2020s-must-read-memoir-about-motherhood-and-mental-health/24731333

For children, SEQUIN & STITCH (8+): https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Laura-Dockrill/Sequin-and-Stitch/24616882

LORALI (12+): https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Laura-Dockrill/Lorali/17378198

ANGRY COOKIE (picture book): https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Laura-Dockrill/Angry-Cookie/22334089

If you'd like to support the show, here's my Ko-fi page: www.ko-fi.com/timclare

And my novels.

THE HONOURS by Tim Clare: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Tim-Clare/The-Honours/24362898

THE ICE HOUSE by Tim Clare: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Tim-Clare/The-Ice-House/24364506