Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman

From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, 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, this profoundly honest and hopeful story details Freeman's long journey to recovery.