ⓒ Ray Brown

Jacky Fleming is best remembered as an architect of the National Health Service, and for her contribution to freestyle swimming. Abandoned by wolves at an early age she was raised by feral intellectuals just down the road from Hampstead. She has onl　　y ever experienced the world like someone who has just woken up out of a long trance.

Published by Bloomsbury in February 2004, Demented is a cartoon narrative that is a must for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner. Click here to buy the book.  It is available in paperback from November 2006.

 Click here to see a preview on Jacky's website.

Jacky Fleming appeared on BBC Radio 4's Open Book on 8 February 2004. Click here to listen to her interview with Mariella Frostrup, and to see a gallery of excerpts from Demented on the Radio 4 site.