![]() ![]() It was her best friend Adele (yes, that one!) who spotted all was not well and Laura’s account of her postnatal mental illness was the subject of a searingly honest memoir, What Have I Done? last year. The story came out just as Laura was becoming a mum herself and experiencing a terrifying bout of post-partum psychosis. ![]() In 2018, she published her first picture book Angry Cookie, a quirky tale about turning your frown upside that starred a pink-haired biscuit with a recorder-playing cactus housemate called Barbra. Her debut children’s book Darcy Burdock was nominated for both the Waterstones Book of the Year Prize and the Carnegie Medal, as was her debut young adult book Lorali. The Londoner attended the prestigious Brit School before making her mark as a playwrite, performance poet and young adult author and illustrator. Laura Dockrill is a woman of many talents. ![]()
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