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About the Book

Exploring the theme of the outsider the book concerns an unusual and imaginative girl, Caty, who escapes from her dysfunctional family and her sense of not fitting in through the murky world of addiction. The book is written in an experimental, poetic style and has a strong philosophic content. The book aims to be challenging but ultimately hopeful.

About the Author

Mel is based in Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland. A relatively new writer, Mel has been published in several magazines as a poet, (as well as having given a performance as a guest poet at the O Bheal Open Mike session in Cork City), and as a novelist ('The Ghost Whisperers' published by Raider Publishing International). Mel has had an eclectic education in both the Arts and the Sciences and her initial career was in Microelectronics. Mel currently works as an artist, having had numerous solo and joint exhibitions in both London and Ireland and also as a human rights campaigner/advocate both freelance and in conjunction with a number of human rights, animal rights and environmental organizations. Mel is 44 years old and shares accommodation in Mallow with a Yellow Labrador called Poseidon