A review by cmoo053
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman

4.0

This memoir is at once lovely and disturbing. Freeman writes with unwavering honesty about her illness, and in doing so, gives a real insight into what it is like when your mind is not your own. Such a narrative has the potential to be immensely bleak; overwhelming. This instead, is balanced. It is as much a story of a lengthy battle against an unrelenting illness, as it is a love letter to books and reading. It is a reminder that when the world fails us, when our minds fail us, there is always solace and healing to be found in books.