The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire by Jessica Hamel-Akré

The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire

Jessica Hamel-Akré

320 pages hardcover

4 editions

nonfiction memoir
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The day Jessica Hamel-Akré discovered the ideas of George Cheyne – an eighteenth-century polymath and London society figure known as ‘Dr Diet’ – it sparked an intellectual obsession, a ten-year study of women’s appetite and a personal unravelling....

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