"Michael Schmidt gave me tequila once. This book is GREAT."
- Rebecca

 A group of allegorical stories about desire, lust, sex, love and frustration is followed by a group of ‘true’ stories, exploring themes both personal and historical, political and environmental.

"A fun and thoughtful journey through time and place."
- Emily

Williams' poems compose a tragi-comic paean to vanishing hinterlands and fine-tuned weirdness, to domestic relics, to dog walks, dust and phantoms.

"History becomes 'her story' in this heartfelt and genuine collection of poems on extraordinary women from the past."
- Yen-Yen

The poems in this collection are inspired by the courageous, unconventional, pioneering and indomitable spirits of some remarkable Restoration and 18th century women.