Helen Murray Taylor is a writer of contemporary fiction, creative non-fiction, essays and the occasional poem. Her debut novel The Backstreets of Purgatory was published in 2018 by Unbound. She has appeared as a speaker at the Bronte Women Writers Festival, National Creative Writing Graduate Fair, the WayWord Literary Festival and as part of the Unmother Project for the Brighton Festival 2021. She is a founder member of the twitter peer support group, Women Writers Network.
Mental Health and Writing
Helen is a regular contributor to the opinion column of Aberdeen’s Press & Journal where she writes about mental health, a subject close to her heart. Although her background is in clinical medicine and research science, she turned to writing after her own difficulties with poor mental health. At her worst, she was detained in a psychiatric hospital sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Her memoir about this time, love lay down beside me and we wept, is available to support at unbound.com.
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