When Jessica was thirteen years old, she met the Monkey
The Monkey lived outside her: a driving, fiery voice teller her that thinness was the only way to be safe, to be acceptable and, above all, to escape from the looming threat of approaching adulthood. Jessica listened to the Monkey, and it consumed her.
Through memory, reflection and enduring black humour, this is the illuminating story of a teenage girl’s wanderings in darkness: the spiral down into madness, the terrible realities of an adolescent psychiatric unit, and the final stark choice – either tame her monkey or die.
Monkey Taming is an uplifting novel written by a teenage and inspired by her own experiences.
