A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALFrom Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery.
'This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of MenopausingFrom the bestselling author of 'Mum, What's Wrong With You?
A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places.
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer.
'An inspirational call to arms' DAILY MAIL'This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear' THE TIMES'A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully' FINANCIAL TIMES'This bold, visionary book is a wake-up call to governments.
The reason a lot of smokers find it difficult to become non-smokers is that they frame their intention in the negative - speaking about 'giving up' and focusing on lack.
