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Lighter Than My Shadow (Paperback)
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Lighter Than My Shadow (Paperback)

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£25.00
Paperback 516 Pages
Published: 03/10/2013

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A poignant, heart-lifting graphic memoir about anorexia, eating disorders and the journey to recovery

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she’d have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behaviour might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly.

Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.

‘Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre … Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down’ Observer

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224090988
Number of pages: 516
Weight: 1867 g
Dimensions: 255 x 198 x 44 mm


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Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre … Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down. A work of true devotion. This heartbreaking, endearing and painfully honest depiction of a girl fighting against herself to survive makes for a truly amazing story. [A] searing memoir… Gripping, thanks to its honesty and its disjunction between traumatic subject matter and sometimes childlike artwork, James Smart

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“Beautiful and moving”

A beautifully told and beautifully illustrated narrative of both internal and external struggle. Depicted with a subtlety and sensitivity that makes it all the more poignant. Definitely a book to own, not borrow:... More

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“An unmissable book”

A graphic novel which really uses the form to express what a conventional biography would struggle to. Katie Green's art work is simple but effective; the use of scribbled black lines to demonstrate dark... More

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“An incredible graphic novel looking into a real life experience of an eating disorder affliction ”

This is a beautiful graphic novel which I have thrust upon many of my friends urging them to take the time to read it.
The story follows the real life events of the author and her experiences following her adolescence... More

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