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Good Girls
- A Story and Study of Anorexia
- Narrated by: Hadley Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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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 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.
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"For parents of girls with eating disorders, this is vital, revelatory, and deeply moving." (Caitlin Moran)
"Recounting her years of anorexia with uncommon honesty, Hadley Freeman makes a powerful case for finding the will to live." (Lauren Collins, author of When in French)
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- Abi Tempest
- 02-03-24
Brilliant. So interesting and informative
I really enjoyed this. It really opened my eyes to the anorexic world and the reasons it emerges. A really good listen.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-04-23
Beautiful, brave and honest
thank you for sharing this beautiful brave and honest experience which so many others can connect to but had always felt alone and misunderstood
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- ElizabethB
- 17-05-23
Excellent
Hadley Freeman is such a brilliant writer and she brings her whole self to this deeply honest and insightful book.
I feel I’ve learned so much about anorexia as I learned so much about WWII from House of Glass. Hadley uses the personal to examine big painful issues. It’s also funny and the 90s references brilliant. Thank you
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- Mrs. K. Locke
- 07-06-23
Shared insight.
Well written and easy to access. An authentic insight into the world of a girl and woman struggling to live with mental illness. The description of choices made throughout life by Hadley due to that illness in this book offer a very valuable insight to build understanding, and approaches to supporting people who have an eating disorder.
I am already recommending this book to my colleagues.
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- Alexandra
- 19-04-23
Beautifully written & read
Caring and considerate insight into the sad & disturbing world of mental health and anorexia. Thank you so much for sharing Hadley, I have no doubt this will help many. X
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- Carla U
- 26-06-23
An important and enlightening read
If you have daughters this is a really useful read. It’s entertaining, funny, educational and mostly will make you so much more aware of what your daughters might be experiencing.
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- Catherine
- 06-05-23
Revealing
Such an honest, detailed and informative description of life with Anorexia. A must read for all secondary school teachers.
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- Anne-Frances
- 24-05-23
Beautifully written and read
This was so much more than I expected. For anyone who struggled with psychiatric illness, anxieties, compulsions or self-doubt growing up… this will resonate. It’s a powerful insight into the often-tortured teenage psyche but there are moments of lightness and humour too.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-05-23
Brilliantly written insight
As someone on the outside of this terrible condition, I read this book to grin a better understanding of every aspect of it. It was delivered brilliantly. I’ll never truly know the suffering but I hope I can be more informed and compassionate to those that do
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- G.Bean
- 23-05-23
Harrowing
A devastating book which has caused me to reflect on my own experience with an eating disorder 45 years ago. Freeman has been at the coal face. The heritability of anorexia shocked me. Her analysis of body dysmorphia was also riveting- particularly as it plays out (with different therapeutic conversations and outcomes) in trans teens. Thoughtful, careful work. Brave. Funny. Important. Thank you Hadley Freeman.
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