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The Newcastle Journal - 06/02/07
Durham-born author Grace Bowman writes on the importance of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week and her own battle with food.
 
The Journal - 13/01/07
My Place
Author and exiled North-Easterner Grace Bowman, speaks on the places she loves.
Eating Disorders Association - December 2006
Recovering my self from anorexia
Grace Bowman writes for the Eating Disorders Association.
 
Varsity - November 2006
Grace Bowman: My struggle with anorexia
When Grace Bowman was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, her illness made her determined to be "the best anorexic there could be".
Tonic - October 2006
A diet too far
Grace Bowman had what most people would consider to be a very 'normal' childhood. She talks to Dawn Mellowship about how her anorexia began, how she recovered and what lead her to write a book about it.
 
Human Givens - Volume 13, No 2, 2006
Got to be thin
Grace Bowman tells Denise Winn how professionals were of little help to her, in the grip of anorexia, and how she managed to defeat it largely by herself.
 
The Northern Echo - 11/04/06
Echo Woman
In a gripping memoir, Grace Bowman tells the story of her
battle with anorexia – a battle which she’s now
firmly put behind her. She talks to Women’s Editor Sarah
Foster.
 
BBC Breakfast
The Independent on Sunday – 26/03/06
The best anorexic there could be
A Shape of My Own is powerfully written, beautifully articulated
and elegantly constructed…
The Daily Mail - 24/03/06
A Rich Feast Made From Thin Pickings
Critics Choice: A Shape of My Own. Playing the blame game
is easy when it comes to eating disorders…
 
Times Educational Supplement – 24/03/06
Eating Disorders: The ones who just don’t fit
Hilary Wilce picks over autobiographical and fictional treatments
of the modern young girl’s curse.
The Evening Chronicle – 20/03/06
It robbed me of my energy for life
At her lowest point Grace Bowman weighed under six stone
and her family were sick with worry…
 
The Sunday Times – 12/03/06
How mum saved me from myself
Parents can play a vital role in helping a daughter fight
anorexia – but they must act early, says Grace Bowman.
The Times Educational Supplement- 02/03/06
Addiction That Becomes An Illness
In Year 13 when the build up to mock A-levels was intensifying
I decided to go on a diet. As an academically successful pupil,
there was a self-imposed pressure to keep up my standards,
and raised expectations from teachers and parents, ‘Of
course you’ll do well – no question!’ But
there was for me...
The Big Issue - 28/02/06
Shape Shifting
Anorexia is often portrayed as a disease only very famous
or very vain get, but in actual fact it has the highest mortality
rate of any psychiatric illness. Author Grace Bowman tells
Mia Vigar how she survived to write her story.
  
The Newcastle Journal - 28/02/06
How I Finally Found A Shape Of My Own
ANOREXIA caught me in my final year of school, writes Grace
Bowman. I was unsure about leaving, so comforting and safe was
my home, and so scary and uncontrollable my future, that my
anxieties were displaced on to a diet...
 
The Independent - 28/02/06
My years of living dangerously
At 18 she was pretty, popular, heading for Cambridge - and
slowly starving herself to death. Now, 10 years later, Grace
Bowman analyses what made her anorexic...
Stella Magazine- 19/02/06
Vanishing Point
Bright, popular, pretty and successful, Grace Bowman had
the world at her feet. So what drove her to starve herself
nearly to death at the age of 18? And what, more importantly,
made her stop? In an extract from her brilliant new memoir
the former anorexic recalls the darkest days of her illness...
  
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