Elliot Sweeney
I’m a Londoner born and bred, but these days, I divide my time between the capital and my adopted home in Lancashire, where there’s a bit more space to write. By day I’m a community psychiatric nurse specialising in adolescent mental health and post-traumatic stress. Through fiction, I aim to fuse my professional interests with a love of fast-paced crime writing.
Bookwise, I invariably turn to the purveyors of the noir tradition, both old and current. I also keep my finger on the pulse of those exploring mental health and well-being through original narrative voices.
We Don’t Use Words Like ‘Crazy’
A warts-and-all memoir about what working in this opaque sector looks, feels, sounds, and smells like. Spanning two decades, and taking readers from London where I trained, to the windy northwest and my adopted hometown, readers are thrown in at the deep end of acute wards, understaffed community teams, and meet a collection of patients whose harsh struggles and quiet victories I’ve been privileged to witness.