Meet Valentine Headway

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In this debut novel in free verse, Valentine Headway gives voice to Charlotte, a cleaner whose everyday life unfolds in the shadows. Between physical exhaustion, everyday humiliations and overflowing thoughts, Charlotte moves forward, holding back her poems as she does her anger, and tries to remain standing in a world that too often forgets her. Beneath repeated gestures, a sensitive voice emerges: one that unsettles, moves and questions how we view those we do not see. An intimate, social and powerful text exploring the beauty and brutality of everyday life.