Working Class Girl

'Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland's most important contemporary voice.'<BR>LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses<BR><BR>'Amazing. I couldn't put it down.'<BR>ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were<BR><BR>'Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.'<BR>EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place<BR>~ ~ ~<BR>Hungry is the powerful new memoir from Number One bestselling author Katriona O'Sullivan - a raw, courageous exploration of survival, identity and the lifelong search for self-acceptance.<BR><BR>Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle - with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough.<BR><BR>In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves - and how society teaches them to measure their value.<BR><BR>Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman's story - and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive.<BR><BR>MORE PRAISE FOR HUNGRY:<BR><BR>'I tore through it.' - TANYA SWEENEY, journalist and author of Esther is Now Following You<BR><BR>'As profound and honest as anything I have ever read' - LIZ NUGENT, author of Strange Sally Diamond<BR><BR>'A beautiful telling of determination despite the odds' - Irish Times<BR><BR>'Raw and remarkable' - Irish Independent<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN:<BR><BR>'One of the most remarkable people you will ever meet' - Guardian<BR><BR>'Powerful - Katriona is a legend' - BARRY KEOGHAN<BR><BR>'Raw, passionate and resolutely honest - I'll never forget it' - ANNIE MAC<BR><BR>'Moving, uplifting, brave, heroic' - NUALA MCGOVERN, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio Four