Laura Elizabeth Woollett is an author and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man, was published in 2016, followed by the novels Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), The Newcomer (2021), and West Girls (2023). Her works have been listed for numerous awards, including the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. In 2025, she was a writer-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Hell Days is her nonfiction debut.

‘An immaculately researched and thought-provoking book about a disorder that history has failed to understand and the disordered world that prevents people from understanding themselves ... A must-read for anyone with PMDD.’

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is an author and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man, was published in 2016, followed by the novels Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), The Newcomer (2021), and West Girls (2023). Her works have been listed for numerous awards, including the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. In 2025, she was a writer-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Hell Days is her nonfiction debut.

‘An immaculately researched and thought-provoking book about a disorder that history has failed to understand and the disordered world that prevents people from understanding themselves ... A must-read for anyone with PMDD.’

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is an author and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man, was published in 2016, followed by the novels Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), The Newcomer (2021), and West Girls (2023). Her works have been listed for numerous awards, including the Stella Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction. In 2025, she was a writer-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Hell Days is her nonfiction debut.

‘An immaculately researched and thought-provoking book about a disorder that history has failed to understand and the disordered world that prevents people from understanding themselves ... A must-read for anyone with PMDD.’