You’re my good news story is an honest, harrowing and gently humorous personal account of a young woman’s battle with the deadly mental illness and eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. Unlike other personal accounts of this topic, You’re my good news story is based on the pivotal role of other people – for better and for worse – in this young woman’s journey of recovery, from a guy in America who makes personal development tapes to her ignorant bully brother, her eccentric GP, her lawyer-cum-muso family friend and refreshing 5 year-old niece. 

Abbie Collins is a young woman whose concerns with her body image start early in life, but which escalate after she leaves the safety net of college and moves on to university life. For the following 10 years – of which a part is spent obtaining doctoral qualifications - Abbie struggles in solitude with her illness, controlled by an inner voice which loathes and manipulates her. Beyond her Ph.D, and during a period of listening to the tapes of Mike Brescia, a voice inside Abbie begins to question the mental prison in which she’s been trapped all these years. Unable to ignore it any longer, the thoughts trigger a compelling series of events that take place over the following 3-4 years of Abbie’s life. Some of these events are heart-wrenching, some heart-warming, but all come back to the people who accompany Abbie along her road of recovery...>> Read More