Mansfield and Me

The only writer who inspired jealousy in Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield hung out with the modernists, lost her brother in the First World War, dabbled in Alistair Crowley's druggy occult gatherings and spent her last days in a Fontainebleau commune with Olgivanna, Frank Lloyd Wright's future wife, until she died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

Having written, ‘Oh to be a writer, a real writer', she became as famous for her letters and diaries as for her short stories. She is regarded as a literary giant in her native New Zealand, but she had to leave the country to become one.

Sarah Laing wanted to be a real writer too – as famous as Katherine Mansfield, but not as tortured. Mansfield and Me charts her journey towards publication and parenthood against Mansfield's dramatic story, set in London, Paris, New York and New Zealand.

Part memoir, part biography, part fantasy, this graphic memoir examines how our lives connect to those of our personal heroes.