I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit-Kat. It tastes amazing. Remember when Kate Moss said: ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. When I think of the wasted years, the evenings spent alone, the friends lost, all those shared meals I've avoided… it strikes me as incredibly sad. I'll never get those years back. Anorexia is a young person's game and I don't have the energy to play any more. A true story of falling in love and overcoming anorexia At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day. Having met the man of her dreams (and wanting a future and a baby together), she embarked on the hardest struggle of all: to beat anorexia. It was time to start eating again, to regain her fertility and her curves, to throw out the size-zero clothes and face her food fears. And as if that wasn't enough pressure, Emma also took the decision to write about her progress in a weekly column for The Times. Honest, hard-hitting and yet romantic, An Apple a Day is a manifesto for the modern generation to stop starving and start living; a compelling and life affirming true story of love and recovery. AUTHOR: Emma Woolf is the great niece of Virginia Woolf. She studied at Oxford University and worked in publishing before becoming a freelance journalist and writer, contributing to The Independent, Harper's Bazaar, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. SELLING POINTS: • A 21st Century answer to The Beauty Myth and Fat is a Feminist Issue • Emma's weekly column in The Times, An Apple a Day, is one of the newspaper's most popular features, with thousands of followers online • Emma has already appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, the BBC World Service and Radio 5 Live to discuss the column and eating disorders. She is working on various TV projects and also consults for BEAT, the National Eating Disorders Association • Essential reading for anyone affected by eating disorders (whether as a sufferer or carer), and anyone interested in health, social and media issues, and medical professionals • Taps into widespread public interest in healthy living and body image issues REVIEW: 'Frank and compelling... made me understand anorexia in a way I never have before.' Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4