"The Little Turtle" by Tamara Martin is a delightful story, in poetic form, the first in a series, about a little turtle called "Turt the Snurt." He was very worried because he could not understand why he was so slow. One day he decided to ask a wise old owl who told him that there are many animals that are fast and slow. Life is not a race, so it's OK to move at your own pace.

It hadn’t always been like this. Not this bad anyway. I’d managed my whole life always feeling a little off centre, masking it with boys and cocktails in the hope I’d somehow feel whole but somewhere along the way both stopped working and when nothing helped, down the hill I began to roll until it became so dark I didn’t know the way back. I couldn’t do it anymore. The pain of it tore at my insides, it burned and ached and I no longer felt like a person. I’d forgotten what it even felt like to feel something other than emptiness.

When...