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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 selfdestructive 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