Safe Spaces

<p>Our unnamed narrator survives in London on a combination of Universal Credit, music production and songwriting, trying to figure out what she wants from the city, and whether the city is prepared to give it to her.<br><br>Navigating love affairs and blinded by grief following the death of her closest confidante<b>,</b> <i>Safe Spaces</i> is a portrait of the artist as a young musician. Of the DJ booths, green rooms and dance floors that shape her, and the worlds she finds herself in: be they the grime and electronic nightclubs, her Turkish-Cypriot family, the beauty parlour, the studio.<br><br>At once a songbook, a collection of aphorisms, a therapy transcript and a community journal, <i>Safe Spaces</i> is a work of extraordinary lyricism and candour, confirming Tice Cin as one of the foremost stylists of her generation. An intimate portrait of a community and a moving personal reckoning, it fearlessly asks: can the dream of a safe space ever be realised?</p>