Product Description
Hungry: A Biography of My Body
Author: Katriona O'Sullivan
Format: Hardcover
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.
‘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
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 Independent
Praise 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
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