Lighter Than My Shadow
  • Published: 11 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473557598
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 516

Lighter Than My Shadow

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A beautiful, heartbreaking and ultimately heart-lifting graphic memoir

A poignant, heart-lifting graphic memoir about anorexia, eating disorders and the journey to recovery

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she’d have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behaviour might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly.

Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.

‘Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre … Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down’ Observer
  • Published: 11 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473557598
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 516
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About the author

Katie Green

Katie Green is an artist and illustrator living in the south west of England. She has published a regular zine, The Green Bean, since 2010. To see more of her work visit www.katiegreen.co.uk

Praise for Lighter Than My Shadow

[A] searing memoir… Gripping, thanks to its honesty and its disjunction between traumatic subject matter and sometimes childlike artwork, James Smart

Guardian

Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre … Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down.

Rachel Cooke, Observer

This heartbreaking, endearing and painfully honest depiction of a girl fighting against herself to survive makes for a truly amazing story.

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A work of true devotion.

Paul Gravett, Independent