My Other Mother

‘My Other Mother’ is a graphic novel which I've been slowly working on since around 2010. The book is 'auto-bio-fictional-graphical' and is based on a transitional and transformative time in my early thirties when I met my first mother, who had relinquished me for adoption when I was a baby and she was just nineteen.

It is going to be published by Liminal 11 in 2024.

In 2018 it won the  Laydeez do Comics Women’s Prize for Best Unpublished Graphic Novel in Progress.

In 2023 I was awarded the John Brooks Award by the Society of Authors’ to help fund the completion of this labour of love.

You can read a review of the book so far in Broken Frontier here.



Praise for My Other Mother, My Other Self

"My Other Mother, My Other Self combines uncompromising yet carefully crafted prose, brutal candour and haunting, melting artwork to bring us directly into its author’s mindscape." 

Andy Oliver, Editor, Broken Frontier

"Haunting and brave, inventive and honest, her work provides shape and colour to sensations that words can’t yet reach." 

Steff Humm, Editor in Chief, Ink Magazine

“I was bowled over by the beauty of Emma’s art work. I could just gaze at the images with pure pleasure (and a degree of envy!) - but then there is also the gripping storyline that draws you in. I am so looking forward to reading the whole book.” 

Bobby Baker, Artistic Director of arts organisation ‘Daily Life’


Click on the images above to see some drafts pages from different parts of the novel.

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