Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year at school. She went on to university at Oxford where her disease took on a powerful dimension & by her final year she was so debilitated that she had to sit her exams in a separate room where she could be fed continuously throughout each one.
With heartbreaking candour & poignant intimacy, Emily vividly chronicles the complexities & inner struggles of living with anorexia. Two years on, she traces her disease from its elusive origins, through its darkest moments of deprivation, guilt & self-loathing, & finally recounts her journey towards recovery. Emily allows us to understand what it