The Web - The Triumph of a New Zealand Girl Over Anorexia

William Collins Publishers Ltd, 1989. Some wear to top of spine.

The powerful account of how a young New Zealand girl lived with anorexia, told through her diary.

Deborah writes with an astonishing maturity and self-control, and with utter openness about what is running through her mind as she struggles with her guilt and her fears. The diary closes as she is discharged from hospital ... on her way to recovery, but more from calling on her own inner resources than from any magic medication.

In an Epilogue penned in November 1988, she says: I have learned so much from what happened to me. It has changed my whole life. Anorexia is a warning signal, but it doesn't have to be the end - it can be a new beginning.