Sandy Jeffs OAM is a prize-winning poet and the author of eight collections including the bestselling collection Poems from the Madhouse, Blood Relations, The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness, The Mad Poet’s Tea Party and The Poetics of a Plague which documents the COVID-19 Melbourne lockdowns. Her non-fiction includes the prize-winning Out of the Madhouse (with Margaret Leggatt). Sandy has been an advocate for people with mental illness for many years.
Read this exceptional book. It takes you beyond your own narrow terror towards something that might be called insight. —Helen Elliott, The Age (on the first edition)