Just Give Me The Pills

In a large, white-picket dream, a married mother selfishly cries. She has everything she ever wanted - a husband, a house, a business degree, a baby - she is at the pinnacle of the migrant dream. Perhaps she needs to return to her medication, the pills she stopped taking to become pregnant. She was taking them for six years. She wasn't allowed to move out of home so she married at twenty-two. Now she is thirty, and it's as if she is looking at her life for the very first time. She is starting to see things. The creativity she had kept buried inside all her life birthed out with her daughter, and now her words are taking on a life of their own.

From the author of the Australian poetry bestseller, Love and F--k Poems, Just Give Me The Pills is yet another brilliant novel-in-verse by Koraly Dimitriadis. It is a story of repression. It is a story of being silenced, and the terror of realising all the choices you've ever made are those you were expected to make, and you have no idea who you really are. It is a story of liberation, of rebuilding and finding one's true self.  

About the Author

Koraly Dimitriadis was born in Australia to Greek-Cypriot migrants. She writes poetry, short-stories, prose and non-fiction. She is the author of Love and F--k Poems, a bestseller for the poetry genre in Australia, it was translated into Greek and published in both languages by Honest Publishing UK. Koraly is an actor and scriptwriter and has produced short films of her poems which were partially funded by Australia Council. Her theatre show KORALY: ‘I say the wrong things all the time’, based on the texts Love and F--k Poems and Just Give Me The Pills, debuted at La Mama Theatre in 2016. Koraly’s literary works have been published in journals and magazines, and she has performed at events nationally and internationally. Koraly writes regular journalistic opinion and has been published in The Saturday Paper, The Age, SMH, ABC, SBS and Rendezview. Koraly is nearing completion of her debut fiction novel, Divided Island, which she received a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship. Koraly is based in Melbourne.