Lemon Juice and Clotted Cream is a fearless collection of poems that moves through love, loss, womanhood, aging, motherhood, addiction, desire, grief, and survival with unflinching honesty. These poems do not seek comfort—they seek truth. From childhood rooms and broken homes to oceans, bars, lovers’ beds, and quiet mornings with dogs, the voice here is raw, lyrical, and deeply human. Each piece feels like a confession whispered too late or a reckoning spoken just in time. Violence is emotional, tenderness is hard-won, and beauty often arrives bruised. This is a book for readers who have burned and bloomed, broken and begun again—who understand that healing is not gentle, and survival is its own kind of poetry.