Boken følger hovedpersonen Hannah Higgins, en kvinne i førtiårene, som går gjennom et turbulent år preget av indre og ytre uro.

Historien dreier seg om Hannahs kamp mot selvdestruktiv atferd, inkludert overdreven drikking, usunne forhold og følelsesmessige sammenbrudd. Til tross for at hun forsøker å fremstå som funksjonell i samfunnet, sliter hun med følelser av ensomhet, angst og retningsløshet.

Gjennom det kaotiske friåret får leseren et dypere innblikk i Hannahs psykiske tilstand og hennes langsomme reise mot selvinnsikt og mental tilfriskning, med en god dose beksvart humor.

Eilidh was born out of desperation on the third day of September in 1983, the year of the pig. She started writing at the age of four and has not stopped since. With a BA in linguistics and an MA in Journalism, you might have thought she would have been able to do something productive in her life before now, but it would take a full-on mental breakdown for her to finally find her own voice and actually listen to it.

A long-time sufferer of sometimes crippling OCD, complex PTSD and depression, Eilidh has been in and out of the public and private healthcare system in both her native Norway and the UK. This has given her considerable insight into how overwhelming the experience can be for the patient when they cannot fit into the neat little boxes the system demands.

Eilidh has found through her writing an outlet for dealing with her own mental state, as well as profound pleasure in delving into the research and psychoeducation needed to better understand the makings of her own mind, her quick wit and dark sense of humour making the end result rather palatable for the reader. This is her first novel.

Eilidh currently resides somewhere in time, but her still-beating heart will always largely belong to Edinburgh, the town that took her in when she had nowhere else to go.