Toxic Nursery (Paperback)

Toxic Nursery is a deranged, roller coaster journey written with beautiful brutality and stunning originality. Using semi-autobiographical storytelling, it explores the different facets of a fractured personality - from irritating cheerfulness to cold cynicism, from meek terror to unhinged exhibitionism, and from academic introversion to vitriolic fury. It scathingly mocks the "misery memoir" genre by turning dark subjects into even darker comedy. This intensely psychological, vicious parody hurtles at breakneck speed through a series of bleakly hilarious misadventures. Lyrical and sardonic, it reads like a cross between a poem, a joke, an artist's manifesto, and a mental health case study, but with constant emphasis on the writer's twisted sense of humour. Martece unflinchingly spotlights the myriad of truths that shape the human character in this demented account of a creative life that involves "courage," art, madness, badgers, alien princesses, Gothic melodrama, nudity and petrol.