Delporte's drawings pull me into her work over and over. Her deft drawings in colouring-pencil, or her rapid ink-wash sketches, are very appealing and the intimate details she sees and how she chooses to frame those details is always delightful and surprising. This volume consists mainly of drawings with text on the facing page, more like an old-fashioned picture book than a traditional graphic novel. It's also a use of "white space" that is popular in auto-fiction at the moment, and an effective use of it. The blankness of the page makes the image glow with its own colour. This is a subtly presented book, and one that feels expansive and careful. At 35, Delporte realises that she is a lesbian, and in this book she reflects on her journey to this place, and on what she has gained by her realisation. Many of the drawings in this book are of objects from nature that remind Delporte of vulvas: flowers, shells, lichens and moss. At first this seems almost ridiculously on-the-nose, but the more I read, the more bewitched I became by her drawings. In all of Deporte's books, I've found something slightly lacking in nuance in her approach to feminism or lesbianism -- it's as though she's inventing them from the beginning, rather than building on the work of others. So at times her approach to lesbianism felt old-fashioned and gender-essentialist to me, but at the same time I admired her honesty about her journey to this space, and the gentle, tender way she explores her life and the ways she sees herself.