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A Night Where Purgatory Held Its Breath
A NIGHT WHERE PURGATORY HELD ITS BREATH
A memoir of chaos, identity, and survival on the razor’s edge.
Squatting behind Copenhagen Central Station, half-naked and piss-drunk, Ashley clings to the remnants of a night that’s spiralled beyond control. The city’s neon glow licks at her smudged makeup, the stench of alcohol and regret thick in the air. She’s a shapeshifter-mother, lover, addict, outcast-caught between the woman she becomes after dark and the man who stumbles home at dawn.
From the Cotswolds’ emerald hills to Copenhagen’s seedy underbelly, this is a life fractured into Malou the Naïve, Tilly the Fighter, Ashley the Free. A gothic childhood, stolen dresses, and buried desires erupt into a midlife odyssey of sex clubs, techno dungeons, and jazz-bar rebellions. But beneath the cocaine highs and tangled sheets lies a deeper hunger-to belong, to be seen, to outrun the purgatory of self-loathing.
With unflinching honesty, this memoir drags you through the wreckage of addiction, gender, and fractured love, How far would you go to feel alive? And when the sun rises, who survives-the mask, or the soul beneath it?
A memoir of chaos, identity, and survival on the razor’s edge.
Squatting behind Copenhagen Central Station, half-naked and piss-drunk, Ashley clings to the remnants of a night that’s spiralled beyond control. The city’s neon glow licks at her smudged makeup, the stench of alcohol and regret thick in the air. She’s a shapeshifter-mother, lover, addict, outcast-caught between the woman she becomes after dark and the man who stumbles home at dawn.
From the Cotswolds’ emerald hills to Copenhagen’s seedy underbelly, this is a life fractured into Malou the Naïve, Tilly the Fighter, Ashley the Free. A gothic childhood, stolen dresses, and buried desires erupt into a midlife odyssey of sex clubs, techno dungeons, and jazz-bar rebellions. But beneath the cocaine highs and tangled sheets lies a deeper hunger-to belong, to be seen, to outrun the purgatory of self-loathing.
With unflinching honesty, this memoir drags you through the wreckage of addiction, gender, and fractured love, How far would you go to feel alive? And when the sun rises, who survives-the mask, or the soul beneath it?
132 pages, Paperback
Published June 7, 2025
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