Laura Dockrill

Laura Lee Dockrill (born 28 May 1986) is an English author^[1] and performance poet.^[2]

Personal life

Dockrill is married to musician Hugo White (from The Maccabees); they have a son, after whose birth Dockrill suffered severe postpartum psychosis.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Books

Mistakes in the Background (HarperCollins, 2008)
Ugly Shy Girl (HarperCollins, 2009)
Echoes (HarperCollins, 2010)
What Have I Done? Motherhood, Mental illness & Me (Square Peg, 2020)

Children's books

Darcy Burdock (2013)
Lorali (Hot Key Books, 2015)
Aurabel (Hot Key Books, 2017)
My Mum's Growing Down (Faber & Faber, 2017)
Big Bones (Hot Key Books, 2018)
Angry Cookie (Walker Books, 2018)
Robin Hood (Samuel French, 2018)
My ideal boyfriend is a croissant (2019)
Sequin and Stitch (Barrington Stoke, 2020)
Butterfly Brain (Templar Publishing, 2020)
The Lipstick (Walker Books, 2021)

References

^ Walker, Esther (11 April 2009). "The Facebook poets: ten rising stars of British poetry". The Times. London. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
^ "9 Questions for Laura Dockrill | fleeting". Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
^ "Laura Dockrill reveals she was on 'suicide watch' after giving birth to baby - postpartum psychosis account". HELLO!. 9 May 2022.
^ "Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: 'I thought I'd been hijacked by a devil'". the Guardian. 19 April 2021.
^ Dockrill, Laura (9 July 2021). "My summer of love: 'Every time he kissed another girl, my heart broke'". the Guardian.
^ "Opinion: I knew becoming a dad would be tough – but never imagined I'd be visiting my partner in a psychiatric hospital". The Independent. 19 June 2021.
^ "How Adele set Laura Dockrill on path to recovery from postpartum psychosis". The Irish Times.
^ "Postpartum psychosis: the crippling mental health illness as explained by Laura Dockrill". HELLO!. 17 June 2021.
^ Machell, Ben. "Hugo White of the Maccabees on his partner's postpartum psychosis" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.

External links

[1] Walker, Esther (11 April 2009). "The Facebook poets: ten rising stars of British poetry". The Times. London. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

[2] "9 Questions for Laura Dockrill | fleeting". Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

[3] "Laura Dockrill reveals she was on 'suicide watch' after giving birth to baby - postpartum psychosis account". HELLO!. 9 May 2022.

[4] "Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: 'I thought I'd been hijacked by a devil'". the Guardian. 19 April 2021.

[5] Dockrill, Laura (9 July 2021). "My summer of love: 'Every time he kissed another girl, my heart broke'". the Guardian.

[6] "Opinion: I knew becoming a dad would be tough – but never imagined I'd be visiting my partner in a psychiatric hospital". The Independent. 19 June 2021.

[7] "How Adele set Laura Dockrill on path to recovery from postpartum psychosis". The Irish Times.

[8] "Postpartum psychosis: the crippling mental health illness as explained by Laura Dockrill". HELLO!. 17 June 2021.

[9] Machell, Ben. "Hugo White of the Maccabees on his partner's postpartum psychosis" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.

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Authority control databases
International	ISNI 2 VIAF WorldCat
National	United States Czech Republic
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