'Enters the ED discourse like a blaze of light' - Vogue 'Sharply intelligent . . . consoling
and enraging' - Sarah Moss author of The Fell In Dead Weight Emmeline Clein brings
together her own experience of disordered eating with the stories of other women - famous
figures from across time and popular culture and girls she has known and loved - and traces
the medical and cultural history of anorexia bulimia orthorexia and binge eating disorder.
In writing that's electric fierce and endlessly curious Clein investigates the economics that
underpin our eating disorder epidemic grapples with the many ways disordered eating has
affected her own friendships and romantic relationships and illuminates how today's feminism
has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all she challenges the accepted
narratives women absorb every day about themselves which connect female worth to inhabiting an
ever-smaller form. In an age of appetite suppression Clein imagines a world where we allow
ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction.
