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Local author Lorraine Ellis – interview

LORRAINE ELLIS is our very own local author from Paull. Lorraine specialises in writing books and novels about mental health issues, and in helping people to understand this ‘taboo’ subject.

Seaside FM 105.3 caught up with Lorraine last month when she attended an official launch of her latest autobiographies Mini Hen Legs and Ladybird Ladybird Fly Away Home. She describes the books and her experiences of writing them.

In the second part of the interview Lorraine reads an extract from Mini Hen Legs about her childhood delight at moving to “Bonnie” (the Bond’s Estate), Hedon for the first time in 1966.

You can tell from the interview that Lorraine is a very down-to-earth person and should be an inspiration to us through her ‘extraordinary’ feat of writing the books and getting them published, the first of which took her 10 years to finish!

Have you got a book inside you, bursting to be written?

You can get Lorraine’s books from publishers Chipmunka, from all good bookshops and also from Amazon at our associate links here:

Pease Pudding Hot

Mini Hen Legs & Ladybird Ladybird Fly Away Home

Local Author – Official Book Launch and Signing

BOOK LAUNCH: Friday 15th of July, 2011, 2pm at Withernsea Library, Queens Street, Withernsea.

Books by local author Lorraine Ellis:

Lorraine lived in Hedon for many years and now lives in Paull.

Her first book, a novel entitled Pease Pudding Hot, was published in 2010.
Lorraine’s latest book her autobiography entitled Mini Hen Legs & Ladybird Ladybird Fly Away Home was published earlier this year.

Lorraine will be selling and signing copies of her books at 2pm at the Withernsea Library on the 15th July.  She will be looking forward to meeting you and will be happy to talk about her work.

Mini Hen Legs & Ladybird Ladybird Fly away Home

LORRAINE ELLIS is a local author from Paull. The Hedon Blog is delighted to announce that her autobiography, Mini Hen Legs & Ladybird Ladybird Fly away Home, has been published as a paperback by Chipmunkapublishing.

The book recounts the author’s struggle against a terrifying mental illness that afflicted her as a child and an adult.

Lorraine told us: “The book is split up into two parts the first story: Mini Hen Legs concentrates on my childhood to adolesence. Ladybird Ladybird Fly away home focuses on my adulthood and my battle with bi polar.”

Specialist publisher Chipmunkapublishing has this to say about the book:

“It tells of an experience she endured at the age of five and how this experience shadowed her growing years thus leading her into confusion and insecurity. At the tender age of fifteen Lorraine began to hear voices in her head and became paranoid and delusional. It is a vivid account of those years giving a true insight into how it feels to suffer with serious mental health problems…

Lorraine is an inspiration to all who come across her… Lorraine represents a remarkable example of a recovery journey for someone experiencing severe mental illness”

The publication of the book is fantastic news for our very own local writer. It is Lorraine’s second book to be published! As Blog regulars will know, Lorraine’s first book Pease Pudding Hot was published as an e-book in 2009 and in print in 2010.

The new book is available to order from Chipmunkapublishing, W.H Smiths and will soon be in stock in Waterstones on Jameson Street in Hull.

Mini Hen Legs & Ladybird Ladybird Fly Away Home is also available through Amazon. The Hedon Blog is an Amazon Associate.

Paull’s ‘Pease Pudding Hot’ published in print!

CONGRATULATIONS go to Lorraine Ellis! The Holderness Gazette reports that the Paull based author is to get her book Pease Pudding Hot published as a paperback.

The book charts the moving story of Joe Sharp who is trapped in a world that doesn’t understand his schizophrenia – including the voices in his head that haunt and taunt him – and his experiences of being sectioned in hospital. The title of the book refers to the rhyme that Joe sings to block out the nasty voices.

The novel has already been published as an e-book by Chipmunka Publishing as reported on the Blog in 2009.