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‘Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom. Ireland’s most important contemporary voice.’
LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses

‘Amazing. I couldn’t put it down.’
ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were

‘Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book.’
EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place
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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.

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.

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.

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.

MORE PRAISE FOR HUNGRY:

‘I tore through it.’ – TANYA SWEENEY, journalist and author of Esther is Now Following You

‘As profound and honest as anything I have ever read’ – LIZ NUGENT, author of Strange Sally Diamond

‘A beautiful telling of determination despite the odds’ – Irish Times

‘Raw and remarkable’ – Irish Independent

PRAISE FOR KATRIONA O’SULLIVAN:

‘One of the most remarkable people you will ever meet’ – Guardian

‘Powerful – Katriona is a legend’ – BARRY KEOGHAN

‘Raw, passionate and resolutely honest – I’ll never forget it’ – ANNIE MAC

‘Moving, uplifting, brave, heroic’ – NUALA MCGOVERN, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Four

Publisher Review

Soaring with compassion, intelligence and hard-won wisdom, this standout book confirms that O’Sullivan is arguably Ireland’s most important contemporary voice. * LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses * One of the most remarkable people you will ever meet. * Guardian * Utterly compelling, deeply moving and brilliantly written, Hungry is a raw, insightful look at women’s complex relationship with their bodies. Every woman needs to read this book. Every man needs to read this book. * EDEL COFFEY, author of In Her Place * Moving, uplifting, brave, heroic. * Nuala McGovern, Woman’s Hour, BBC * O’Sullivan is such a vivid, empathetic storyteller who writes so beautifully not just about the correlation between the body and poverty and abuse, but the intersection between sex, body image, culture and dieting. I doubt there’s a woman alive who won’t immediately see herself in these pages. * TANYA SWEENEY, journalist and author of Esther is Now Following You * Hungry is more than a book: it’s a song, a map, a journey. Amazing. I couldn’t put it down. * ELAINE FEENEY, author of As You Were * A beautiful telling of determination despite the odds. * Irish Times * Hungry is a raw and brutal account of one woman’s battle with her own body, as profound and honest as anything I have ever read. * LIZ NUGENT, author of Strange Sally Diamond * Raw and remarkable. * Irish Independent *