![]() ![]() Trigger Warnings: Eating disorders, self harm, suicidal thoughts & depression. Only because I was so happy she managed to recover. I think I would have liked more detail into her recovery as things started to improve.Īpart from that, I had also forgotten the author had a lived experience of anorexia, so reading that at the end made me cry a bit. My second reason for giving it 4 stars is that her recovery suddenly happened, it became rushed in the final few pages and she was suddenly better. And I believe like the writer could have still had the same impact with her novel without including the numbers. So although I don’t remember being triggered when I read it many years ago, I do know it can be a huge trigger for those living with eating disorders to see numbers and then feel not sick enough. The only reasons I’ve given it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I know my past self would have taken all the weights, heights and calories in the book and then compared them to myself. Yes it brought up so many somewhat painful memories, but it also brought me so much relief to remember that I got out. I decided to reread it again recently, now that I’ve been fully recovered for a number of years. I loved the book a lot and could relate to many of the characters who were struggling in the book. ![]() ![]() It gave me so much comfort to know I wasn’t alone and to start to feel like maybe recovery was a possibility. ![]() I initially read this book ten years ago when I found it at my local library and I was in the grips of an eating disorder. ![]()
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