Longlisted for the 1996 Women's Prize for Fiction
It’s 1984 and Alice Forrester is a 25-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is admitted into a hospital renowned for its eating disorders clinic. This funny, poignant, resonant and wise first novel was greeted by strong praise and hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a coming-of-age novel for the 90’s”.
