Mistress Pieces

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An experimental exploration of love and madness

Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces explores how madness can bring self understanding if we let ourselves live its chaos. The narrator must navigate a broken past and a turbulent present to find joy in motherhood, friendship and a new attraction. This experimental novel takes us on a celebratory journey through love and madness.

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Publication date October 2025

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An experimental exploration of love and madness

Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces explores how madness can bring self understanding if we let ourselves live its chaos. The narrator must navigate a broken past and a turbulent present to find joy in motherhood, friendship and a new attraction. This experimental novel takes us on a celebratory journey through love and madness.

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Publication date October 2025

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About the Author

Jen Hyatt is a writer, performer and activist. She is a member of the Society of Authors. Mostly she writes for adults, but has also published the King of Kazam, a modern fairy tale picture book for children; wrote and performed in a one-woman comedy show about Modern Sin at the Edinburgh Festival; and hosted two popular podcasts featuring women writers.

Her non-fiction writing has been published by the Guardian, Forbes, and the World Economic Forum. 

Previously, she worked as a social entrepreneur founding over thirty nonprofit ventures internationally, raising £50m, and winning numerous awards including Red Magazine’s Digital Woman of the Year and Freeman of London. Her media and public speaking appearances include the BBC, TED and Davos. She was born queer and working class on a farm in rural Dorset and now lives in Edinburgh.