Laura Dockrill Explained

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)

External links

• Laura Dockrill – interview (The Guardian)
• Laura Dockrill (HarperCollins)
• Laura Dockrill (BBC Radio)

Notes and References

1. News: The Facebook poets: ten rising stars of British poetry. The Times. 21 July 2014. London . Esther . Walker . 11 April 2009.
2. Web site: 9 Questions for Laura Dockrill | fleeting . 2013-01-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130226081454/http://www.fleetingmagazine.com/interview-with-laura-dockrill/ . 2013-02-26 .
3. Web site: Laura Dockrill reveals she was on 'suicide watch' after giving birth to baby - postpartum psychosis account. 9 May 2022. HELLO!.
4. Web site: Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: 'I thought I'd been hijacked by a devil'. 19 April 2021. the Guardian.
5. Web site: My summer of love: 'Every time he kissed another girl, my heart broke'. Laura. Dockrill. 9 July 2021. the Guardian.
6. Web site: Opinion: I knew becoming a dad would be tough – but never imagined I'd be visiting my partner in a psychiatric hospital. 19 June 2021. The Independent.
7. News: How Adele set Laura Dockrill on path to recovery from postpartum psychosis. The Irish Times.
8. Web site: Postpartum psychosis: the crippling mental health illness as explained by Laura Dockrill. 17 June 2021. HELLO!.
9. News: Hugo White of the Maccabees on his partner's postpartum psychosis. Ben. Machell. www.thetimes.co.uk.