
It was too sad for me to write about because basically, a newspaper hired nurses who watched for, I think a week, and she died. She said: "There was a Welsh case in the 1870s-Sarah Jacobs. However, she found it too sad to adapt for her 2016 novel. I always found historical stories are totally connected to today, because of course, the questions you bring to them are the questions that the writer living in 2022 has." The Sarah Jacobs Caseĭonoghue told Newsweek that one case, in particular, caught her attention. So it's a lovely way of telling stories that kind of sidle into people's heads, rather than having their theme completely upfront. "One thing I love about writing about the past is that it's all hugely connected to today-but indirectly. Some would live their entire lives claiming not to eat, and sadly, others died from what would today be diagnosed as anorexia nervosa.ĭonoghue told Newsweek: "When I came across these real fasting girl cases from the 16th century to the 20th, I thought 'that's the freakiest thing' and then I thought, 'no, it's quite likely to be heard, isn't it?' It's quite like girls being terrified to become girls in a culture that sees them as sex objects. In some cases, the fasting girl would be exposed as a hoax. Celebs condemn Kanye West over antisemitism.

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