'Vivian is one of the most fascinating characters I've read in contemporary fiction... Reading Post-Traumatic feels like an illicit thrill' Dawnie Walton

'Cool, stylish, and violently funny... It made me smile, laugh, cringe, shiver, and think. Like life, Post-Traumatic is richly triggering and highly recommended' Myriam Gurba

'Swift, caustic, charismatic, beautiful, terrifying, and so incredibly funny... Johnson composes such precise, pathologically consumable prose that I couldn't stop reading, even if it was the way I'd watch a scary movie: through my fingers' Tommy Pico


'Chantal V. Johnson is a brilliant documentarian of the unstable. She writes with a forensic and unsentimental sense of justice, in sentences that spark with life' Vanessa Veselka

'This brilliant debut shows us what it means to live with, and beyond, trauma. I felt such kinship with Vivian that I sometimes felt like Johnson was reading my mind' Jessamine Chan

'Astonishingly funny, intimately neurotic, and so honest and necessary that I can't stop thinking about it... This book is a mirror I couldn't put down' Jill Louise Busby