Cathy Crabb

"What goes on in these four walls is none of their concern,
shut your mouth and keep it shut is what you need to learn..."

Mumb: a personal exploration of the dark side of motherhood and what it means to be a woman.

"To read Mumb is to sit at a rickety northern kitchen table with an old mate, as she shares the intimacies and heartaches of being a woman of a certain age, doing her best and sometimes failing; of striving, coping, suffering and surviving. While you scoff cinnamon buns and try to ignore the smell of the unemptied cat litter. It is a book full of love and honesty." - Julie Hesmondhalgh

Cathy Crabb is an award-winning playwright who has written extensively for the stage, including the plays 'Beautiful House', 'Moving Pictures', 'Something Right' and 'Beyond the 4th Wall'. Her critically acclaimed play 'The Bubbler' toured in 2014 and 'Dreamers', a musical co-written with Lindsay Williams and Carol Donaldson, premiered at Oldham Coliseum in 2015. She is currently writing the play 'Rumba Bar' with Punam Ramchurn and a second musical with Lindsay Williams for Oldham Coliseum, 'Meat Pie, Sausage Roll'. Cathy's poetry features on sculptures by Emma Hunter at the former site of Elk Mill in Chadderton. She lives in nearby Saddleworth with her husband, the photographer Carl Gibson, and has three children, Bobby, Lawrence and Hazel.

Aduly poetry.