Hadley Freeman’s “Good Girls” is an excellent memoir cum personal investigation into anorexia.
The author was hospitalised with anorexia when she was 13 years old, and then struggled with the illness for the next 20 years of her life.
This book chronicles her own personal experiences whilst interweaving discussions she has had with doctors and professors into the narrative, as well as conversations with those fellow patients who she met in hospital as a teenager.
Freeman is an intelligent, articulate and insightful writer and this memoir discussing her experiences of growing up with anorexia is compelling and fascinating, said a review on Goodreads.com.
“This book was really good but also heartbreaking all at the same time,” it added.
There is an enormous amount of personal revelation, both to the author herself and to us, about the dynamics of anorexia.
There is a great deal of research information combined with true stories.
Anorexia “is not a desire to be thin — it’s a desire to look ill,” Freeman writes.
