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An experimental exploration of madness and love
The crash of her husband’s foot through the bedroom door shatters the narrator. Each broken part of the body and mind takes on a voice, expressing itself through ‘Mistress Pieces’, words scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper, in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces celebrates madness and its influence on contemporary political and personal relationships, encouraging us to embrace chaos as we seek a new paradigm for living.
Publication date September 2025
An experimental exploration of madness and love
The crash of her husband’s foot through the bedroom door shatters the narrator. Each broken part of the body and mind takes on a voice, expressing itself through ‘Mistress Pieces’, words scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper, in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces celebrates madness and its influence on contemporary political and personal relationships, encouraging us to embrace chaos as we seek a new paradigm for living.
Publication date September 2025
An experimental exploration of madness and love
The crash of her husband’s foot through the bedroom door shatters the narrator. Each broken part of the body and mind takes on a voice, expressing itself through ‘Mistress Pieces’, words scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper, in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Framed within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces celebrates madness and its influence on contemporary political and personal relationships, encouraging us to embrace chaos as we seek a new paradigm for living.
Publication date September 2025
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.
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