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The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
by Laura Freeman
A powerful memoir, all the more so because this is my first detailed exposure to how anorexia affects the mind. The author writes passionately, candidly and eloquently about how this illness had warped her thinking; she likens it to a Jabberwock that lurks in a dark corner, just waiting for a little chink of vulnerability to allow it to reappear. Her story is itself powerful and interesting - that reading (a wide variety of mainly classics, from Dickens to Little Women to Laurie Lee to Elizabeth David to Harry Potter, and more) helped her make a final, significant leap in her recovery, from "functionally recovered" (ie can and will eat, but timidly and without pleasure) to actually experiencing interest and joy at the act of eating.