City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Notes from a sickbed, Tessa Brunton

eng

contains biographical information

illustrations

no index present

14-18 years old

fiction

Notes from a sickbed

comics graphic novels

Tessa Brunton

In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical holding pattern, housebound and often alone. In 2017, she found a strategy that helped reduce her symptoms, and soon began creating the first instalments of a graphic memoir

adult