Book description
Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year at school. She went
on to university at Oxford where her disease took on a powerful
dimension and by her final year she was so debilitated that she had to
sit her exams in a separate room where she could be fed continuously
throughout each one.
With heartbreaking candour and poignant intimacy, Emily vividly
chronicles the complexities and inner struggles of living with
anorexia. Two years on, she traces her disease from its elusive
origins, through its darkest moments of deprivation, guilt and
self-loathing, and finally recounts her journey towards recovery.
Emily allows us to understand what it's really like to suffer from
anorexia, exposing its secrets and dispelling some of the myths that
shroud it.
Alive with self-awareness, but never self-pity, Perfect is an
inspiring read that will help those battling with the horrors of
anorexia find a way out, and those on the outside to understand more.
Emily Halban was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1983. She spent her
childhood in Geneva before coming to study at Oxford University from
where she graduated in 2004. Emily developed anorexia at the age of 16.
She now lives in London.
