The Spaces In Between
The Story of an Eating Disorder
$26.35
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2017
Summary
‘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,…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472121653 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472121651 |
| Author: | Caroline Jones |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 22mm |
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Beautiful and heart-rending … I could smell Africa on every page
Beautifully crafted memoir … [Caroline Jones] lays bare her troubled past with clarity and authenticity - Mail on SundayThe 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. - GuardianIn this beautifully written memoir [Jones] evocatively recalls the landscape of her youth and courageously recounts her struggles - Sunday ExpressFearless, 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 - Irish ExaminerInspiring - Argus (Brighton)Thoughtful - The SpectatorAbout The Author
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.
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