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'When it became clear that Amanda Webster's eleven-year-old son Riche was not just a little too skinny 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 that every disease has a cause. And if her son had an eating disorder, she wondered what the cause 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's illness, far less how to treat it. And as she embarked on the long, agonising process of saving her 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 beautifully written account of life with an eating disorder, and a gritty, moving testament to a mother's love.' (From the publisher's website.)
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'Why Do I look Fat in This?' Is Not a Comic Question
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 - 29 July 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography -
Mum's Fight Sheds Light on Anorexia
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14 - 15 July 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography -
Non-Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 June 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June-1 July 2012; (p. 35)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography ; Politics, Society, Self : Occasional Writings 2012 selected work prose
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Non-Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 30 June 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June-1 July 2012; (p. 35)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography ; Politics, Society, Self : Occasional Writings 2012 selected work prose -
Mum's Fight Sheds Light on Anorexia
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier Mail , 14 - 15 July 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography -
'Why Do I look Fat in This?' Is Not a Comic Question
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28 - 29 July 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of The Boy Who Loved Apples : A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia 2012 single work autobiography