A father's powerful and poignant memoir. Peter Barham lost his daughter, Debbie, to anorexia at the age of 26. Debbie was a talented BBC comedy writer whose death shocked the media world. The story centres around the 9 months Debbie lived with Peter and his moving search to know more about his daughter and make sense of it all after her death. A father's poignant memoir of the nine months he nursed his anorexic daughter and his struggle after her death to make sense of it all and to know his daughter more fully. Peter Barham left his wife while Debbie was just a toddler and had little to do with her until the day she turned up on his doorstep, weighing just 4 stone. For 9 months he gave Debbie a home - terrified at times he would find her dead in the morning. Debbie was a successful comedy writer for such luminaries as Clive Anderson, Rory Bremner and Ned Sherrin, the frail girl never stopped working. But at times she didn't have the strength to lift her head from the pillow. Then one day, when Debbie felt stronger she left, leaving a note. Debbie died of anorexia in her mid twenties, a reclusive inhabitant of a London docklands flat. The book opens with Peter's harrowing visit to it, after her death, when he finds that Debbie had sent herself helium balloons via an Internet mail order company the day before she died which bore the get well message, 'Chin up Debs. It can only get better.'
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007205424
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89937628
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Invisible Girl: a Father's Moving Story of the Daughter He Lost
Author
Peter Barham
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
222mm
Item Width
141mm
Item Weight
480g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Peter Barham
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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