The Sun-Room will be published April 2025, by Linen Press

I have turned myself inside out to try to find the words. Beneath my skin is a scream.

Jess was a healthy young woman in her early twenties, newly graduated from university. Life awaited. A post-viral illness struck her down. With fury and tenderness, she has written an unflinching account of chronic illness grief.

I am unravelling in losses like ribbons piled up around my feet.

This is not a recovery memoir reflecting on past illness and charting a return to health. It is an immediate, electric prose poem, a scream of anguish, an annihilating and liberating exploration of self-identity. A gentle surrender to the present.

Words by Jess Watts; Art by Mia Louise