Despised and Rejected Category_Grey Books/Science Fiction I’m probably quite mad –

I’m probably quite mad – but I just can’t bear it

but the New York Times described it as 'unwittingly burlesque'

become friends

or which flowers to have in vases for every month of the year

that they have to eat their meals in damp cupboards

Despised and Rejected Category_Grey Books/Science Fiction I’m probably quite mad –WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JONATHAN CUTBILL 364pp ISBN 9781910263167 The wonderfully titled Despised and Rejected by Rose Allatini is everything we would like a Persephone book to be. It is by a forgotten writer who deserves to be revived, as well as having a number of strong themes: opposition to war, acceptance of homosexuality, tolerance of others, awareness that it is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple, one must be woman manly or man womanly