Biting Anorexia
Sydney: Finch Publishing, 2008 and Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2009.
"A graphic yet poetic insight into the pain and suffering experienced by sufferers of eating disorders [that] will no doubt provide a positive incentive to others - both to those already in treatment and to those who are struggling to take that first step."
— Claire Vickery OAM, Founder of The Butterfly Foundation
"An intense and compelling insight into the mind of an anorexic."
— Rachael Oakes-Ash, author of Good Girls Do Swallow and Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better
““[Lucy’s] depiction of her mental state in anorexia is quite extraordinary... This book really is the most lucid document and one I have started to recommend to colleagues and to patients.””
When I was 17 and taking my first steps into recovery, I started to write a book based on a diary I had kept for many years. In 2008, Biting Anorexia was published by Finch Publishing in Australia and New Zealand and in the United States by New Harbinger, the following year.
I wrote it to map the terrain on the other side of acute mental illness. It is my story of rebuilding and recovery.
After fifteen years, the first edition is now out of print. Fully and joyously recovered, I am working on a revised second edition.
