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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 into dismembered body parts, an unhinged mind and a lost soul. Each takes on a voice, speaking through ‘Mistress Pieces’ scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Narrated within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces is a celebration of madness and how it imbues all contemporary political and personal relationships, asking us not to fear embracing its chaos in seeking a new paradigm for living.

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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 into dismembered body parts, an unhinged mind and a lost soul. Each takes on a voice, speaking through ‘Mistress Pieces’ scrawled on walls and odd scraps of paper in search of healing damage ‘half a century in the making’. Narrated within a queer love story, Mistress Pieces is a celebration of madness and how it imbues all contemporary political and personal relationships, asking us not to fear embracing its chaos in seeking a new paradigm for living.

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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.