"A memoir of love, madness & poetry" --cover.

It 1972 in Canberra. Michael Dransfield is being treated for a drug addiction; Paula Keogh is delusional and grief-stricken.

They meet in a psychiatric unit of the Canberra Hospital and instantly fall in love.

Paula recovers a self that she thought was lost; Michael, a radical poet, is caught up in a rush of creative energy and writes poems that become The Second Month of Spring. Together, they plan for wedding, marriage, kids the whole trip But outside the hospital walls, madness, grief and drugs challenge their luminous dream. Can their love survive?

Stella Prize Long List 2018