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  • A Mother’s Journey Through a Daughter’s Anorexia
  • By: Clare B. Dunkle
  • Narrated by: Abby Craden
  • Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)
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Hope and Other Luxuries

By: Clare B. Dunkle
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Summary

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life - two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder.

Copublished with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story - told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose - of one family's fight against a deadly disease from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

©2015 Clare B. Dunkle (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Biographies & Memoirs Eating Disorder Memoirs
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very long winded.

struggling to enjoy this book. the author seems to ramble a lot especially when talking about the stories in her imagination.
it feels like half of the book could just be cut out.

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Actual story was great but book rambled

Anyone interested in this book has an obvious interest in eating disorders and that is why they chose this book. Therefore all the added musings were unnecessary at best and annoying at worst and took away from the story. It made for long gaps in the actual story subject. I feel the book could have been half the length which would have given it 5 stars.

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