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Freeman, Laura,

The reading cure : how books restored my appetite / Laura Freeman. - London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018. - 260 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-258).

At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. She had seized the one aspect of her life that she seemed able to control, and struck different foods from her diet one by one until she was starving. But even at her lowest point, the one appetite she never lost was her love of reading. As Laura battled her anorexia, she gradually re-discovered how to enjoy food - and life more broadly - through literature. Plum puddings and pottles of fruit in Dickens gave her courage to try new dishes; the wounded Robert Graves' appreciation of a pair of greengages changed the way she thought about plenty and choice; Virginia Woolf's painterly descriptions of bread, blackberries and biscuits were infinitely tempting. Book by book, meal by meal, Laura developed an appetite and discovered an entire library of reasons to live. The Reading Cure is a beautiful, inspiring account of hunger and happiness, about addiction, obsession and recovery, and about the way literature and food can restore appetite and renew hope.

ISBN: 9781474604642 1474604641

LCCN: 2017491492

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB7N2720 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 018636063 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Freeman, Laura.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Bibliotherapy.
Eating disorders in adolescence.
Anorexia nervosa--Rehabilitation.
Reading, Psychology of.
Anorexia nervosa--In adolescence.

LC Class. No.: RC552.A5 / F75 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 616.85262