The Girl Who Lived on Air: The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl

by Stephen Wade

Though not the first anorexic, Sarah Jacob, "the Welsh fasting girl," was arguably the first to cause a national uproar when she dominated the press in 1869, becoming something of a celebrity. Despite a team of nurses from Guy's Hospital stationed at her home in Lletherneuadd, Sarah died, and the best minds in British medicine theorized about the cause of her apparently supernatural existence: living in spite of starvation. This human story shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781720681
• ISBN13: 9781781720684
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Seren Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 8.0"