The Invisible Girls

Informationen zum Autor PETER BARHAM left home when Debbie was nine months old. An absentee father, he didn't know his daughter well until she turned up on his doorstep one summer's evening. Weighing little over five stone, Debbie said, 'My life's a mess. All of it. Please sort me out.' For nine months Peter and his wife gave Debbie round-the-clock care but her desire for independence finally took her back to London and the life which, only three years later, destroyed her. ALAN HURNDALL is an eminent journalist, writer, author and film-maker. In a distinguished career he has won national industry awards in both newspapers and television, including Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards, a Royal Television Society Award and a BAFTA nomination. Klappentext A few years after packing for London, teenager Debbie Barham was writing the funniest lines for the top names in British comedy. But her genius belied a darker, destructive side that slowly span out of control. By 26 she had died of anorexia. This powerful memoir is her father's search to understand his daughter and make sense of her troubled end.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Barham, Peter (Psychologist Barham, Barham Peter, Alan Hurndall
• Publisher: Element Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2006
• EAN: 9780007205431
• ISBN: 978-0-00-720543-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Grandparenting, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, SELF-HELP / Eating Disorders & Body Image, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Intergenerational Relationships, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Coping With Eating Disorders, Coping with / advice about eating disorders, Life;Experience;Important;Event