She Must Be Mad is a debut poetry and prose collection on coming-of-age from Charly Cox. This collection revisits the exquisite pain and beauty of first love, stumble into wayward nights out that don’t go as planned, and relish the dark humour and honesty of mental illness with this fresh witty new voice of a generation. Charly’s poetry really encapsulates what it is to be a young woman; all the tensions and anxieties and new discoveries She wrote these poems and letters to my past self and in every sort of melodramatic, romantic, ridiculous way, these are what save her. Saved her from an intensity she was afraid to share until she morphed them into something to share with her readers. Some of these were written at sixteen, others at twenty-two; they were all written growing and lost and sad sunk, but they were also all written with eventual hope.