How do you tell her?¿ You may feel scared because you are a woman now.¿ But always the girl with permission to dream.¿ And dreams are free-¿they are free.¿ How do you tell her? LET HER BREATHE is a bittersweet struggle from childhood to adulthood for a woman coming to terms with life in all its ugliness and beauty. Rachel Rees pulls no punches in her poems and short fiction which are told through disparate female voices, including her own, and is separated into five parts. "Palpable. Yes." - Penelope Todd, author of Digging for Spain: A Writer's Journey.