Rose Cartwright

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Rose is a creative director, screenwriter and the author of Pure, as seen on Channel 4 and Netflix. Her grounded sci-fi pilot Supercut was a Brit List 2019 winner and she is currently developing an original comedy-drama. Rose has spoken about storytelling at South by Southwest and Wired Live, and has written for the Guardian, The Face and VICE. She is a guest tutor on the Creative Writing MA at City University.

Rose is currently screenwriting for Netflix’s new sci-fi series from Game of Thrones creators (David Beinoff and D. B. Weiss) and True Blood’s Alex Woo. Based on Liu Cixin’s enthralling novel series The Three Body Problem, the first Chinese science-fiction novel to be translated into English.

BOOKS

Pure

Rose Cartwright has OCD, but not as you know it. Pure is the true story of her ten-year struggle with ‘Pure O’, a little-known form of the condition, which causes her to experience intrusive sexual thoughts of shocking intensity. Pure is a brave and frequently hilarious memoir of a woman who refused to give up, despite being undermined at every turn by her obsessions and enduring years of misdiagnosis and failed therapies.

The Maps We Carry

The Maps We Carry is the culmination of seven years of research into altered states of consciousness, trauma, and the mental health landscape. It follows Rose’s emotional journey navigating this landscape and how, since writing her memoir Pure, her thoughts on mental health have fundamentally changed. She presents a compelling case about how psychedelics are poised to transform the way mental illnesses are conceptualised.