Rosalind’s angry, emotional outpouring of words on Christmas Day was a difficult scene to write, and one that illustrator Emma Trithart captures beautifully in a ‘word tsunami’. Like a lot of people who have family members with mental health conditions, or other types of conditions, Rosalind’s parents find it difficult to balance Rosalind’s needs with the needs of the rest of the family. Her parents invited Rosalind’s auntie because it’s her first Christmas since getting divorced, and they didn’t want her to spend the day alone. Rosalind can’t speak in front of her, so it means she’ll have to spend the whole day in complete silence.ĥ. Rosalind has a Major Emotional Meltdown On A Colossal Scale when she finds out her auntie is coming for Christmas Day. I feel the Exact Opposite to that pretty much all the time.”Ĥ. Like Rosalind says, “There must be something in my dad’s DNA that prevents him from feeling any kind of social embarrassment. He wears reindeer antlers to the supermarket, for example.

Their dad is extra embarrassing during the Christmas period. Christmas Day takes on a whole new significance when Rosalind accidentally finds out it could be her little brother’s last Christmas.ģ. She’s been silent at her new school for a whole term, and she’s beginning to figure out a way to have a voice.Ģ. It’s in the school Christmas assembly when the idea for writing a blog starts to flicker in Rosalind’s mind. Today, I have a guest post from the amazing Tamsin Winter (author of Being Miss Nobody, which I thought was incredible).ġ.

Tamsin winter being miss nobody