The Boy Who Loved Apples

Name: The Boy Who Loved Apples
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ISBN: 9781921922695

A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia

Amanda Webster

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English

Text Publishing Company
02 July 2012

Memoirs; Coping with eating disorders; Biography - Australian

When it became clear that Amanda Webster's eleven-year-old son Riche was not just a little tooskinny but dangerously ill, people were often surprised.

Do boys get anorexia? they would ask.

And then, How did he get it?

That was the question Amanda asked herself, too. She had trained as a doctor; she knew thatevery disease has a cause. And if her son had an eating disorder, she wondered what thecause could possibly be but something she and her husband Kevin had done-or failed to do?

Quick to blame both Kevin and herself, worried about how her two other kids were coping,Amanda also found herself at odds with a medical establishment that barely understood Riche'sillness, far less how to treat it. And as she embarked on the long, agonising process of savingher son's life she found herself battling not just Riche's demons but her own.

Brave, honest and ultimately uplifting, The Boy Who Loved Apples is a compelling and beautifullywritten account of life with an eating disorder, and a gritty, moving testament to a mother's love.

By: Amanda Webster
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 406g
ISBN: 9781921922695
ISBN 10: 1921922699
Publication Date: 02 July 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active