Hanged If You Do...: Reflections from a Career in Child Protection

Beating What’s Eating Me was written with the intention of helping other people with anorexia, and it gives a fascinating insight into Barbara’s lived experience as she travelled the road to recovery. It is essential reading for people suffering with anorexia, their families and friends, and also for mental health professionals who are seeking to gain a deeper understanding of people who are living with an eating disorder.

Honest and heartbreaking literary memoir of the lives of two Irish writers, from the thunderbolt of love to receding into dementia and remaining the greatest of companions throughout. All his life he was obsessed by memory: 'Is the memory of things better than the things themselves?'