A4, 40 pages, full colour digital printing throughout, perfect bound, 2018.

‘Written by Clara Heathcock, art by Patrick Wray.

Hi, I'm Clara, I'm a music critic and my eardrum exploded. I was told I'd make a full recovery, but as part of my treatment I wasn't allowed to listen to music for two months.

Perforated Eardrum, originally comissioned as a series of autobiographical essays for The 405, tells the story of the time I lost the ability to listen to anything for pleasure. About what I craved to hear and why, and what I could only realise about the way I have always tried to make sense of my life through music when it was gone.’

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