Nancy Tucker is a 20-year-old author and nanny. She suffered from both anorexia and bulimia nervosa throughout her teens, but is now on the road to recovery and has gained a place at Oxford to study Experimental Psychology in 2015. She lives in London.
Nancy is fiercely intelligent ... [her book] is astonishingly good
... and a devastating insight into a horrifying illness and its
terrible toll.
*The Sunday Times*
The book is stylish and incisive, and [Nancy] weaves her tale of
fear and food, confusion and calories grippingly and with
skill.
*Guardian*
Nancy Tucker wrote to me when she was a little girl. Her letter
must have really impressed me, because I replied that she was such
a good writer that I was sure she'd have a book of her own
published one day. And so she has, aged 21 - a startlingly
affecting, starkly written account of her anorexia. This isn't just
another anorexia misery memoir - it's a work of literature
*Jacqueline Wilson*
I've never felt so immersed in someone else's world... they were
being so utterly truthful even when describing incredibly difficult
times in their lives... hopefully it'll lead to a better
understanding of eating disorders in the general public.
*Mind*
More than simply a tale of suffering, this book is an illustration
of the complexity of eating disorder and a reminder that the 'cure'
for each sufferer may need to be as multifaceted and as personal as
the disorder itself.
*The Psychologist*
I'm hardly the target market, but I found Tucker's account of her
illness clear-sighted, eye-opening, moving and wise.
*The Bookseller*
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