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March 20, 2012
The Anorexia Diaries: A Mother and Daughter’s Triumph Over Teenage Eating Disorders, by Linda and Tara Rio
I love the angle of this book: mother’s and daughter’s diary entires published side-by-side from a time when the daughter was suffering from eating disorders. Tara is angry with her mother for focusing on her career and turns the anger on herself by developing anorexia and bulimia. The book also includes retrospective comment from both mother and daughter.
March 19, 2012
Diary of a Recovered Bulimic, by Martha M.
A memoir interspersed with diary entries, this book spans twenty years. Martha M. is devastated by her parents’ divorce. She starts throwing up her food at age thirteen. When she reaches twenty-six she realises that, if she doesn’t stop now, the ‘well’ part of her life will become a fraction. She starts watching others’ eating patterns to work out a normal relationship to food.
Mealtimes and Milestones: A Teenager’s Diary of Moving on from Anorexia, by Constance Barter
Written in diary format, this book tells the story of Constance Barter’s anorexia from the age of thirteen. Constance eats half a yoghurt and a cherry tomato a day, and exercises until she collapses. At age fourteen she spends seven months in hospital, keeping a diary record of her journey to recovery.
BBC film adaptation of Anne Lister’s diaries
With the BBC film adaptation of Anne Lister’s diaries in 2010 and their subsequent reprint as The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, these amazing journals are now a household name.
Tib and Anne Lister, played by Susan Lynch and Maxine Peake, share a kiss.
