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Blood Relations

Blood Relations( )
Author: Jeffs, Sandy
ISBN:978-1-875559-98-5
Publication Date:Jun 2000
Publisher:Spinifex Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

The poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the bitterness and the mixed emotions that accompany the experiences of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence and alcoholism. Memory is tested by remembering what one does not want to remember.

Book Details
Pages:108
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5 x 8 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.297 Pounds
Author Biography
Jeffs, Sandy (Author)


Sandy Jeffs is an author born in Ballarat and has a BA from La Trobe University. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for over thirty years. She is a community educator who speaks to schools, universities and community groups about what it¿s like to live with a mental illness. She is the author of the bestselling Poems from the Madhouse (1993; reprinted 2000, 2001), Loose Kangaroos (co-author, 1998), Blood Relations (2000), Confessions of a Midweek Lady: Tall Tennis Tales (2001), and The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness (2004), and her autobiography, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness (2009).

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