Crystal Jeans is an award winning writer whose memoir Blueprints is a funny, irreverent and

sometimes painful look at the realties of loving and living a lesbian life in Wales. She is a

writer who is direct and revealing with perhaps a little too much oversharing thrown in. In this

searing, reflective and truthful collection Crystal explores the struggles of addiction and mental

health during the turbulent transition from adolescence into adulthood through to the strains

of marriage, childbirth and parenting. Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cul-

tural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writ-

ing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world.

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