Queenstown Millie: Into the Diving Bell

By Tara Lee

Queenstown Millie is a trauma-informed historical fiction novel about working women, bodily autonomy, and the structures that protect abuse by calling it tradition. Drawing on the realities of early-20th-century labor exploitation, the story examines how power survives through complicity-and what it costs to break it.

The novel concludes with an appendix examining trauma as it moves through the female body and brain. Drawing on contemporary trauma science, it offers readers context for the novel's fractured memory, symbolic landscapes, and altered states-grounding Millie's experience not in unreliability, but in the physiology of survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJF1W4C2
• ISBN13: 9798245228075
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"