Hadley Freeman – Good Girls

Unquestionably a subject for our times, Good Girls is a searing memoir from Hadley Freeman about one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses. 

From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, the American-British journalist Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Combining personal experience with deep reporting, her profoundly honest and hopeful story details Freeman’s long journey to recovery.

A best book of 2023 in The Times, Guardian and Wall Street Journal

‘A clear-eyed view of a debilitating and misunderstood illness’ Guardian

‘A gripping story’ Financial Times

In conversation with author Ava Glass