Brave Girl Eating

Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award 2011Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike women between the ages of fourteen and twenty.Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that 'it's not about the food', even as a family watches a child waste away before their eyes. Harriet Brown shows how counterproductive - and heartbreaking - this approach is by telling her daughter's story of anorexia. She describes how her family, with the support of an open-minded paediatrician and a therapist, helped her daughter recover using family-based treatment, developed at the Maudsley Hospital in London.Brave Girl Eating is essential reading for families and professionals alike, a guiding light for anyone who's struggling to cope with this devastating disease.