Ill Feelings

Ill Feelings is a memoir, medical history, biography, and literary non-fiction that explores the case histories of Alice and her mother, who were diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, in 1995. The book includes a cast of characters such as Virginia Woolf, Alice James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Ruskins, Rose la Touche, Louise Bourgeois, and Florence Nightingale and is filled with a generative, transcendent rage.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 360 pages
\n Publication date: 25 August 2021
\n Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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In 1995, Alice's mother fell ill with pneumonia, never fully recovering and eventually being diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Shortly after, Alice also became unwell, experiencing symptoms that mirrored her mother's and seemed to have no physical cause. A few years later, both Alice and her mother received the same diagnosis.

Ill Feelings is a captivating blend of memoir, medical history, biography, and literary non-fiction that delves into the case histories of Alice and her mother. It also explores the records of ill health that women have documented in diaries and letters throughout history. The book features a diverse cast of characters, including renowned writers Virginia Woolf, Alice James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin's lost love Rose la Touche, artist Louise Bourgeois, and nurse Florence Nightingale.

Through her genre-bending debut, Alice Hattrick offers a poignant and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. The book is suffused with a powerful rage that is both generative and transcendent, providing a deeply moving and thought-provoking perspective on the experiences of those living with such illnesses.

\n Weight: 354g\n
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781913097646\n \n