The Woman Who Laughed Author Surname:Mason Due to alcohol-related amnesia

Due to alcohol-related amnesia

Jessie Greengrass and Tom Mead interrogate what it means to write about this most illicit of acts

a teacher disappears into the woods

and to a conclusion that will shake not just her entire existence

embossed then foil stamped

The Woman Who Laughed Author Surname:Mason Due to alcohol-related amnesiaIn the first months of 2020 there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre, and although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three murders. Five years later, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears, hanging on the door