Review: The Disappearing Girl - Heather Topham Wood

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One of my favourite genres to read is "Edgy Content" and I used to love reading books about Eating disorders , but I think I read too many and they all kind of started to meld into the same thing. So I stopped for a while , I recently picked up the ebook which featured eating disorders in it and I found myself enjoying it.
 

Review: The Disappearing Girl - Heather Topham Wood - May 2013

When all happiness has disappeared from your life , what will you do to make yourself happy again ? For Kayla , ever since her father died she has been miserable and it's worse now as her mother is controlling and vindictive and likes to make her sister Lila and herself feel small and worthless. When at dinner one night, her mother makes a comment about her weight. Kayla takes this on board and soon finds herself in a cycle of binge eating to purging to counting calories and not eating at all. When Kayla meets Cameron, she is happy in bursts that she finally has met a nice guy who likes her. Can Cameron though help Kayla to start eating healthy again or will in her eyes - think that the only reason Cameron will stay with her is if she keeps losing weight.  Weeks and months pass and Kayla is still losing weight and starting to disappear as she is now skin and bones but Kayla still sees herself as fat and when she searches online and joins a Pro-Ana site and makes a new friend Marti - has Kayla made the wrong decision to live with her or will Kayla have to hit rock bottom before she can realise and fully understand what she has done to herself.

The Disappearing Girl is a heartwrenching novel about how one snide remark can be all it takes to lead one into thinking that she needs to lose weight and start an eating disorder.
 Definitely worth the read.


 

 



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