Hungry: A Biography of My Body

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‘Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland’s most important contemporary voice.’LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses’Amazing. I couldn’t put it down.’ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were’Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.’EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place~ ~ ~Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan – a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance. Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough. In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves – and how society teaches them to measure their value. Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman’s story – and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive. MORE PRAISE FOR HUNGRY:’I tore through it.’ – TANYA SWEENEY, journalist and author of Esther is Now Following You’As profound and honest as anything I have ever read’ – LIZ NUGENT, author of Strange Sally Diamond’A beautiful telling of determination despite the odds’ – Irish Times’Raw and remarkable’ – Irish IndependentPRAISE FOR KATRIONA O’SULLIVAN:’One of the most remarkable people you will ever meet’ – Guardian’Powerful – Katriona is a legend’ – BARRY KEOGHAN’Raw, passionate and resolutely honest – I’ll never forget it’ – ANNIE MAC’Moving, uplifting, brave, heroic’ – NUALA MCGOVERN, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Four