Walking on stilts. A story about anorexia

by Lena S.

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Subject:

One of the most haunting accounts from an anorexia sufferer

Target audience:
A book for girls and young women with eating disorders as well as their parents, friends and teachers.

Content:

Lena is 15 when she realises that her body is the only thing that belongs to her. That is when the struggle to get the perfect body and watching every kilo and gram begins. There is the welcoming possibility of becoming even thinner than the mother who is annoying and knows it all anyway. She doesn’t think it is such a bad idea that it is no longer naturally presumed that she should be a good daughter, good at school and a good friend. But attention is not always automatically followed by understanding. Lena cannot get that thin. The illness does not go away. Lena passes her school finals with her usual perfection as the best in the year but it takes the last of her energy. Then she has to be admitted into the clinic because of anorexia nervosa.
It slowly becomes clear to Lena that she can change her eating habits, and she does so. The clinic helps her, especially Lukas, in whom she recognises herself but whose gram for gram shrinking away makes her scared. The companionship is good, but she is sure: She doesn’t want to die, she wants to live.

Author:

Lena S., born 1980, studied psychology and lives in Berlin.

Original title:

"Auf Stelzen gehen. Geschichte einer Magersucht"

BALANCE buch + medien verlag, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-86739-014-2, 186 Pages, €14.90
First published in 2007.

2008 also available as an audio book.

For further information please contact: Ms Kerstin Zander.