Graphic Novels
The Room of Stars
It’s 1992. Beatrice is 13 years old and she's having a spectacularly bad year. The odd girl out in an even odder school, everything she touches just turns weird and no-one seems to like her.
This darkly comic queer coming-of-age story follows Beatrice through the anxieties and awkwardness of teenage life.
With Yorkshire wit and grit and nineties nostalgia, we journey with Beatrice into the unknown, as she tries to understand and accept herself.
The Room of Stars won LDComics prize in 2021 for best graphic novel in progress in England and Ireland by a female author-illustrator.
Beatrice and her ecclectic range of interests.
The book explores gender and what it is to be a girl growing up in the 90s in a northern city during Thatcher's industrial policies and section 28. Queer themes are subtle and the story richly layered.
No matter how hard I tried I could not fit in to their reality.
As time passed I grew more and more of an outsider. Snow fell. The girls' hearts froze.
