In The Lily Room

Erica Hesketh''s debut collection In the Lily Room tells a story of early motherhood. It examines a new mother''s journey through mental illness, her relationships with her body, her baby and other people, and the often surreal landscape of mothering, against a backdrop of a changing and uncertain world.A dreamlike birth sequence full of eels, foxes and floodwater empties onto a London postnatal w...