Second Star to the Right

By Deborah Hautzig

An honest and moving account of a girl in the grip of anorexia nervosa.

On the face of it, Leslie is a normal, healthy, well-adjusted fourteen-year-old girl. She goes to a good school, has a great friend in Cavett, and a mother who loves her to the moon and back. She should be happy, yet she’s not. She would be, she thinks, if only she were thinner. But “thinking thin” becomes a dangerous obsession and Leslie’s weight drops to five stone, threatening to destroy her and the whole fabric of her family life. Only by realizing that this condition is an illness – and one that has its roots in a deep problem – can Leslie hope to survive.

Categories: Fiction

For readers aged: 12+

  • Publication details:
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781406315493
  • Published: 01 Dec 2008
  • Price: £5.99
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  • Size: 198 x 129 mm
  • Pages: 176

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'Hautzig deserves praise for this perceptive, moving and witty story.' Publisher’s Weekly

'The first-person voice gives the novel an emotional power not found in case histories.' The Horn Book Guide

'Well-written and unblinkingly honest.' The Guardian

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