Author: Freeman, Hadley
Autobiography: general
Published on 11 April 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 288 pages
198 x 128 x 16 | 198g
A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
A searing memoir from Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, about one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses.
‘A clear-eyed view of a debilitating and misunderstood illness’ Guardian
‘A gripping story’ Financial Times
From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Combining personal experience with deep reporting, this profoundly honest and hopeful story details Freeman's long journey to recovery.