Lightswitches Are My Kryptonite - Softcover

"In Sylvester, Crystal Jeans has created a character as evocative and alluring as her own name. Her book is an amazing piece of literary ventriloquism; convincing, moving, funny, flawlessly sustained, and utterly compelling." -- Niall Griffiths

"Jeans' fiercly honest storytelling remains compelling and original...often uncomfortable, often humorous, but always deeply affecting - and ultimately relatable..." -- Dr. Ashley Owen, New Welsh Review

"It made me cry with laughter and cringe/wince in equal measure; it's stunningly written in deft and ebullient prose, and extremely tender" --Rachel Darling, The Turnaround Blog

I started on light switches ... I had to run my fingertip along every bit of the light switch – the edges, the corners, the button – in a particular order and pattern ... If I didn’t get it just right, maybe bad things would happen. Sylvester spends a lot of time in his room, under the duvet, muttering his mantra – Timolol, Diclofenac, Alfacalcidol – and gluing glitter to the light switches. If he doesn’t the evil witch might curse him, or his perverted thoughts be exposed for the world to see. Or maybe he’s just being irrational...? Forced back home to live with his dealer dad, Carl, Sylvester’s imagination takes flight, along with his sanity.