Ill Feelings

In 1995 Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother's and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin's lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick's genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.

ISBN:	9781913097646
Publisher:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published date:	25 Aug 2021
DEWEY:	362.109252
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	320
Weight:	354g
Height:	129mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	24mm

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