Catherine The Story Of A Young Girl Who Died Of Anorexia Nervosa

by Maureen Dunbar

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140087303
• ISBN13: 9780140087307
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This is an excellent book. ...I would recommend this book to those suffering from an eating disorder, or to the friends and family of a sufferer as it gives great inssight.

DANGERS OF DIETING

I read the novel 'Catherine' a few years ago, and it deeply saddened me. 'Catherine' is written by the mother of a twenty-two year old girl who died of anorexia nervosa in 1984.The testimony is a brave and frank account of Catherine's terrible illness which gripped her from the age of fifteen years old. It intersperses extracts from Catherine's diary, which show the tragic mental and physical effect this illness had on her. Her diary records her food intake, and her weight, which tragically plummets to 3 stone when she dies.It touches on her childhood days, where Catherine was a happy and bubbly child, and continues throughout the development of her illness.I would recommend this book to anyone, especially young girls considering dieting. It shows how out of hand dieting can be, and certainly a great help to those suffering from anorexia. I myself suffered from this illness, and this book gave me some strength to battle with it. I didn't want to die like Catherine, and the many other girls who die each year from this horrifying condition.

truthful insight into an often romaticised world

eating disorders are often romanticised; few know of the realpain which they cause, and courage which they demand, in both thesufferer and the family members and friends. this touching documentary of a young girls struggle with, and eventual defeat by anorexia nervosa is openly told by her mother and accompanied by excerts from her diaries. as the book so truthfully details catherine's behaviours, it may be disturbing to the unaware, tear-wrenching to those directly/indirectly affected but yet also so critical to the understanding of the seriousness of these psychological disorders.

sad but true

This book tells of the reality of anorexia nervosa. The stress on the family; the ineffectiveness of treatment (which still goes on today); the states of the Catherine's mind. It's one for the parents of eating disorder children.

The only real Life book that I have ever appriciated

I thought that I would be shocked by this book, and touched to a new level. I was. I was shocked by how any person could ever feel the way Catherine did and also shocked that there was a book written by a Mother about her daughter dying. Howvever, it was so incredibly moving and it reduces me to tears every time I read it. Bettered only by Love Story (Segal).