All The Dark Places by Riley, Frankie

All The Dark Places is a collection of poetry and prose about the years spent trying to survive in the darkness, and the long journey of finding your way out.

It explores the themes Anxiety and depression, the kind that drains the colour out of everything and convinces you that you don't belong here. Loving someone who slowly tears you apart, and the indecision of whether to stay or leave. Being abandoned as a child, and the mark that leaves on everything that comes after.

The first half of the book lives in that darkness. The second half is what you find on the other side of it; the healing that comes in waves, the day you finally walk away, the mornings the weight of your trauma starts to lift.

This is a book for anyone who is still finding their way out.