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  • Hope and Other Luxuries

  • A Mother’s Journey Through a Daughter’s Anorexia
  • By: Clare B. Dunkle
  • Narrated by: Abby Craden
  • Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Hope and Other Luxuries

By: Clare B. Dunkle
Narrated by: Abby Craden
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Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life - two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder.

Copublished with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story - told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose - of one family's fight against a deadly disease from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

©2015 Clare B. Dunkle (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
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Good to hear a parent's perspective.

I did however find the narration really depressing. Whilst it is a somber subject, I really found it difficult to listen to due to the narrator's speaking tone.

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Best of two

This and her daughters book Elena vanishing make up the best eating disorder books I've ever read and I've read nearly all of them. This book duo is fabulous thank u

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