Hope and Other Luxuries - A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life-two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband and a satisfying and successful career as a children''s book novelist. But it''s when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder.Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story-told in brave, beautifully written and unflinchingly honest prose-of one family''s fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Dunkle, Clare B Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle, Dunkle Clare B.
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2015
• EAN: 9781452121567
• ISBN: 978-1-4521-2156-7
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); SELF-HELP / Eating Disorders & Body Image, Coping With Eating Disorders, Coping with / advice about eating disorders