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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

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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

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The story of Perkin Warbeck is one of the most compelling mysteries of English history. A young man suddenly emerged claiming to be Richard of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower. As such, he tormented Henry VII for eight years. He tried three times to invade England & behaved like a prince. Officially, however, he was proclaimed to be Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flemish boatman. A diplomatic pawn, he was used by the greatest European rulers of the age for their own purposes. All who dealt with him gave him the identity they wished him to have: either the Duke of York or a jumped-up lad from Flanders. It is possible that he was neither. It is also possible that, by the end, even he did not really know who he was. In Perkin Ann Wroe tells again a marvellous tale that is on the brink of being forgotten. She also dissects the official cover story. In doing so she delves into the secret corners of European history & produces a portrait of the late fifteenth century that is breathtaking in its detail.--' Extraordinary-Perkin is a masterclass in how biography can breathe life into the darkest & most inert pockets of the past' Guardian --' An unforgettable book-. The best book I have ever reviewed in these pages' Mail on Sunday--' Gripping-With Perkin, Wroe has breathed new life into an obscure figure' Daily Mail--'A book that captures the temper of an age' Financial Times--' Rewards every moment of attention' Sunday Telegraph--' Enthralling-A triumph' Scotsman--' One of the best books I have read on the Middle Ages' New Statesman--' Colourful, engaged & engaging' Independent on Sunday ...