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The Spaces In Between: The Story of an Eating Disorder
Caroline Jones
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Description for The Spaces In Between: The Story of an Eating Disorder
Paperback. An intelligent, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted memoir, describing a gruelling, yet ultimately inspiring 14-year-battle with mental illness, interwoven with childhood memories of growing up in Africa and Pakistan. Num Pages: 320 pages, Integrated black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BM; VFJJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 254.
'Beautiful and heart-rending . . . I could smell Africa on every page' - A. A. Gill Caroline Jones was born in Ethiopia and spent most of her childhood in East Africa. She read French and Spanish at Oxford University and went on to make documentaries for the BBC. Now aged 39, she is happily married with two children. Yet beneath this seemingly perfect public exterior, Caroline was in fact privately indulging in a pattern of destructive behaviour that left her exhausted, anxious, depressed and full of self-loathing - from the ages of 17 to 31, for 14 years, Caroline was suffering from an extremely widespread yet comparatively little-talked about mental illness - bulimia. Caroline is articulate, intelligent, insightful and frank about her experiences, interweaving the journey of her illness with memories of her African childhood, her time at Oxford, her work for the BBC, her family and other relationships, making for a warm and engaging memoir. Her perceptive, retrospective approach to her illness allows her to transcend the topic of bulimia and talk more generally about self-destructive behaviour - there are lessons here which will speak to a little part of everyone.
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472121653
SKU
V9781472121653
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Caroline Jones
Caroline Jones was born in 1974 in Ethiopia and spent the greater part of her childhood in East Africa. Her father worked for the United Nations World Food Programme, and by the time she was eighteen she had lived in five different African countries, as well as Pakistan. After reading French and Spanish at Oxford University, she worked briefly for an English language newspaper in Uganda, before returning to London to make documentaries, primarily for the BBC. She now lives in Brighton with her husband and two children.
Reviews for The Spaces In Between: The Story of an Eating Disorder
Thoughtful
The Spectator
Inspiring
The Argus
Fearless, soul-baring memoir ... Jones interweaves her battle with bulimia with an astutely observed exploration of home, memory, and family inheritance ... Evoking her East African childhood with a painterly quality, Jones vividly recreates growing up in a loving family ... Jones's memoir is absorbing and should provide encouragement for readers struggling with any mental illness ... Told without self-pity or psychological jargon, The Spaces in Between moves inventively between phases of Jones's life and is sprinkled with startling images that blend the panoramic with the intimate
Brendan Daly
Irish Examiner
In this beautifully written memoir [Jones] evocatively recalls the landscape of her youth and courageously recounts her struggles
Eithne Farry
Sunday Express
The story that emerges is both fascinating and complex, drawing together Jones's personal experience and the wider sickness of the world we all live in
Alice O'Keefe
The Guardian
Beautifully crafted memoir ... [Caroline Jones] lays bare her troubled past with clarity and authenticity
Mail on Sunday
Beautiful and heart-rending ... I could smell Africa on every page
A. A. Gill
The Spectator
Inspiring
The Argus
Fearless, soul-baring memoir ... Jones interweaves her battle with bulimia with an astutely observed exploration of home, memory, and family inheritance ... Evoking her East African childhood with a painterly quality, Jones vividly recreates growing up in a loving family ... Jones's memoir is absorbing and should provide encouragement for readers struggling with any mental illness ... Told without self-pity or psychological jargon, The Spaces in Between moves inventively between phases of Jones's life and is sprinkled with startling images that blend the panoramic with the intimate
Brendan Daly
Irish Examiner
In this beautifully written memoir [Jones] evocatively recalls the landscape of her youth and courageously recounts her struggles
Eithne Farry
Sunday Express
The story that emerges is both fascinating and complex, drawing together Jones's personal experience and the wider sickness of the world we all live in
Alice O'Keefe
The Guardian
Beautifully crafted memoir ... [Caroline Jones] lays bare her troubled past with clarity and authenticity
Mail on Sunday
Beautiful and heart-rending ... I could smell Africa on every page
A. A. Gill