Good Girls Audiobook Summary
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery.
In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????”
From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a “functioning anorexic,” grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted.
Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting, Freeman delivers an incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with anorexia—the shame, fear, loneliness and rage—and how she overcame it. She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new discoveries have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. She learns why the illness always begins during adolescence and how this reveals the difficulties for girls to come of age. Freeman tracks down the women with whom she was hospitalized and reports on how their recovery has progressed over decades.
Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story of resilience that offers a message to the nearly 30 million Americans who suffer from eating disorders: Life can be enjoyed, rather than merely endured.
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Good Girls Audiobook Narrator
Hadley Freeman is the narrator of Good Girls audiobook that was written by Hadley Freeman
Hadley Freeman is a staff writer for The Guardian newspaper in the UK. She was born in New York and lives in London. Her books include Life Moves Pretty Fast and the bestselling House of Glass, and her work has appeared in Vogue US and UK, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications.
About the Author(s) of Good Girls
Hadley Freeman is the author of Good Girls
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Good Girls Full Details
Narrator | Hadley Freeman |
Length | 7 hours 54 minutes |
Author | Hadley Freeman |
Category | |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
Release date | April 28, 2024 |
ISBN | 9781797157979 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Good Girls is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, mental illness, body positivity, prozac nation, hunger, memoirs about mental illness, memoirs by women, bad feminist, how to murder your life, addiction, my body, roxane gay, emily ratajakowski, emily ratakowski, elizabeth wurtzel, house of glass, memoirs about recovery, confessional, weight loss, body acceptance, self love, blackout, , Self-Help, Eating Disorders, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Self-Help, Personal Growth, Self-Esteem The BISAC Subject Code is Eating Disorders, Self-Help
Additional info
The publisher of the Good Girls is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797157979.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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