Dying for Approval

15 year old Catherine is in love with her teacher, Mr Kumar. And Catherine knows that if only she could lose her fat thighs then Mr Kumar just might love her back. If she can just lose three stones, she will be Popular and Perfect, and her life, currently weighed down by her disgustingly wobbly body , will, at a stroke, Become Wonderful. If she could only be thin, all her wrongs will be righted, so her new year’s resolution, carefully written in her diary, is, naturally, To Go On A Diet. But Catherine’s journey will take her far beyond counting calories – it will take her to the very brink of having to count the fatal cost.

By turns harrowing and hilarious, tragic and uplifting, Dying for Approval is the story of a teenage girl’s battle with a disease that will threaten to destroy her.

Why Dying For Approval is new and special:

  • The book is written in an intimate, confessional style, which will immediately draw the reader in.
  • Although Anorexia stories have been done before, I feel that my story really explains the exact process inside a sufferer’s head, from the first symptoms and reasons for them to the recovery phase, and explains how getting better is possible, as many sufferers find it hard to understand how I recovered so quickly.
  • As the book is written “day by day,” the reader is hopefully brought to understand the seemingly logical reason for someone developing anorexia; I would like non-sufferers to see that anorexics are not being stubborn or faddy, and to explain the feelings behind the illness.
  • At the end of the book, I give advice to sufferers and to people who are concerned about someone they know, to give them reassurance and guidance, in the hope of being able to help anyone who picks up my book.
  • Anorexia is not a happy subject, and parts of my book were very hard to write as I had to relive distressing memories in order to get them down accurately, but I have injected a lot of warmth and as much humour as I could into the story as well, in the hope that the reader will finish the story feeling positive and determined, just like I did, and I hope to create a voice in the book which everyone will be able to identify with.
  • I was the most remarkable recovery from Anorexia that my psychiatrist had ever seen, and she was very surprised at my positive attitude, even when I was still sick. I think this comes across in my book, which, although it describes the worst moments in detail, doesn’t dwell on them and shows how I was able to pull away from them.

Book Author

Catherine-kerr-phillips Catherine Kerr-Phillips was born and brought up in England, apart from a year living in the South of France when she was a child. She left school at seventeen and has travelled for the past few years. She has a degree in Current Affairs, drama and languages from Nice University and currently works as a translator, artist, reporter and actress. She currently lives in Germany loves nature and animals, and her favorite food is…everything! Dying for Approval is her first book.
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