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Hope and Other Luxuries

A Mother’s Journey Through a Daughter’s Anorexia

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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. Health Mental Health Eating Disorder Memoirs
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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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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.

Good to hear a parent's perspective.

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