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From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a
"riveting" (The New York Times) memoir about her experience as an
anorexic and her journey to recovery. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote
in her diary: "I just spent three years of my life in mental
hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before " From the ages of
fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after
developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body
was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they
could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what
recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a
"functioning anorexic," grappling with new forms of
self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted.
Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood
mental illnesses. Through "sharp storytelling, solid research and
gentle humor" (The Wall Street Journal), Freeman delivers an
incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with
anorexia--the shame, fear, loneliness, and rage--and how she
overcame it. She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the
illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new
discoveries have been made about the illness, including its
connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. She learns why the
illness always begins during adolescence and how this reveals the
difficulties for girls to come of age. Freeman tracks down the
women with whom she was hospitalized and reports on how their
recovery has progressed over decades. Good Girls is an honest and
hopeful story of resilience that offers a message to the nearly 30
million Americans who suffer from eating disorders: Life can be
enjoyed, rather than merely endured.
From Hadley Freeman, the bestselling author of House of Glass,
comes her searing and powerful memoir about mental ill health and
her experience with anorexia. This is how the Anorexia Speak worked
in my head: 'Boys like girls with curves on them' - If you ever eat
anything you will be mauled by thuggish boys with giant paws for
hands 'Don't you get hungry?' - You are so strong and special, and
I envy your strength and specialness 'Have you tried swimming? I
find that really improves my appetite' - You need to do more
exercise In this astonishing and brave account of life with
anorexia Hadley Freeman starts with the trigger that sparked her
illness and moves through four hospitalisations, offering
extraordinary insight into her various struggles.
The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella
Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect
study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ... I don't hesitate
to call it a masterpiece' Telegraph After her grandmother died,
Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of
a woman she'd never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat
in America - defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously
reserved, fashionable to the end - yet to Hadley much of her life
remained a mystery. Sala's experience of surviving one of the most
tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about. When
Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother's treasured
belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their
haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives
of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from
Picasso's archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in
Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz. By piecing together
letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life
the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex's
past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall;
trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted
country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France - each
of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second
World War. And alongside her great-uncles' extraordinary acts of
courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother's equally
heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice. A moving
memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the
twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival,
House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home - issues
that are deeply relevant today.
Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular
'Ask Hadley...' column, reminds the modern lady to 'Be Awesome'.
All women need to listen to Hadley. She might just have the answers
to life's trickiest questions, such as: why does the funny girl in
the film never get the guy? Can you read a women's magazine without
damaging your brain? And should you ever buy Hello Kitty knickers?
Of course you shouldn't! Why are you even asking that? With sage
advice, some very helpful lists and a killer dance routine to
Patrick Swayze's 'She's Like the Wind', Hadley is here to show you
just how awesome life as a modern lady could be.
Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies
from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her,
and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman,
American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three
Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, Back to the
Future and Trading Places; all a teenager needs to know - in Pretty
in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club
and Mystic Pizza; the ultimate in action - Top Gun, Die Hard, Young
Sherlock Holmes, Beverly Hills Cop and Indiana Jones and the Temple
of Doom; love and sex - in 9 1/2 Weeks, Splash, About Last Night,
The Big Chill, Bull Durham; and family fun - in The Little Mermaid,
ET, Big, Parenthood and Lean On Me. Born in the late 1970s, Hadley
grew up on a well-rounded diet of these movies, her entire view of
the world, adult relations and expectations of what her life might
hold was forged by these cult classics. In this personalised guide,
she puts her obsessive movie geekery to good use, detailing the
decades key players, genres and tropes, and how exactly the
friendship between Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi influenced the
evolution of comedy. She looks back to a cinematic world in which
bankers are invariably evil, despite this being the decade of Wall
Street, where children are always wiser than adults, and science is
embraced with an intense enthusiasm, and the future viewed with
excitement. She considers how the changes between movies then and
movies today say so much about pop culture's and society's changing
expectations of women, young people and art, and explains why
Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles should be put on school
syllabuses immediately.
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