When sixteen year-old Brenna Morgan arrived in Ireland with her travel-writer mother she had expected the usual-a couple of months in a country that wasn't her home. What she hadn't anticipated was making a promise to a dying faerie who saves her life. Armed with only her wits and a strange iron key given to her by the faerie, Brenna is pulled into a world where myth and legend cross all too often into reality, in search for a child hidden away in their world. Knowing nothing of the faerie realm, she is aided in her search by her new found friend Patrick and a reluctant faerie named Roibhilin...
When sixteen year-old Brenna Morgan arrived in Ireland with her travel-writer mother she had expected the usual-a couple of months in a country that w...
This book conceptualises the diagnosis ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ (SAD) in women as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twenty-first century Britain. By speaking to women with this diagnosis, and drawing on the author’s lived experience, it investigates the interplay between women’s social anxiety and Western culture. It argues that societal factors are implicated in women’s mental distress to a far greater extent than dominant (especially psychiatric) narratives would hold—narratives which, premised on individual pathology, often present a biologically...
This book conceptualises the diagnosis ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ (SAD) in women as a rational response to life in postfeminist, neoliberal, twe...
