Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. 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. Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting on the issues around the illness, Freeman details her experiences with anorexia, and how she overcame it. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story that will be profoundly helpful for those who suffer from an eating disorder, and those who desperately want to understand them. In this Sunday Times bestselling book, Freeman, with her unique blend of autobiography and biography, delves into the stages of her life, her relationships, and her family dynamics that contributed to her disorders. Her memoirs, a mix of self-help and psychology, provide a raw and unfiltered image of her struggle with anorexia. For fans of Glick Sheri Segal (The Skinny), Jenni Schaefer (Goodbye Ed, Hello Me), Thom Rutledge (Embracing Fear), Harriet Brown (Body of Truth), and Carolyn Costin (8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook). HarperCollins 2023