Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times ) memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery.

In 1995, Hadley Freeman wro…

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