Blueprints
Published on 5. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-1-917140-96-6 (ISBN)
Description
A searing, reflective and truthful collection of essays by award-winning writer, Crystal Jeans, as she explores the struggles of addiction and mental health during the turbulent transition of adolescence into adulthood through to the strains of marriage, childbirth and parenting.
Growing up in south Wales, navigating gender and sexuality, Jeans writes about her relationships with others as well as her own body with a frank self-awareness. Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cultural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world.
Growing up in south Wales, navigating gender and sexuality, Jeans writes about her relationships with others as well as her own body with a frank self-awareness. Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cultural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world.
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'So excited now to read everything by Crystal Jeans' - Caroline O'DonoghueA searing, reflective and truthful collection of essays by award-winning writer, Crystal Jeans, as she explores the struggles of addiction and mental health during the turbulent transition of adolescence into adulthood through to the strains of marriage, childbirth and parenting.
Growing up in south Wales, navigating gender and sexuality, Jeans writes about her relationships with others as well as her own body with a frank self-awareness. Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cultural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world. -- Publisher: Parthian Books
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-917140-96-6 (9781917140966)
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05/2026
Parthian Books
€5.99
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Person
Crystal Jeans' collection of stories Light Switches are My Kryptonite was awarded the Wales Book of the Year. Her recent fiction includes The Inverts and Accidental Darlings. Her debut short-story collection The Vegetarian Tigers of Paradise was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She lives in Pontypridd.