A Fierce Memoir Of Body, Survival And Self
Katriona O’Sullivan writes with raw courage about poverty, addiction, motherhood and the struggle to feel at home in her own body. Intensely personal yet widely resonant, this memoir will speak to readers drawn to stories of survival, self-acceptance and hard-won reclamation.
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Hungry: A Biography Of My Body
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A Fierce Memoir Of Body, Survival And Self
Katriona O’Sullivan writes with raw courage about poverty, addiction, motherhood and the struggle to feel at home in her own body. Intensely personal yet widely resonant, this memoir will speak to readers drawn to stories of survival, self-acceptance and hard-won reclamation.
- Book Synopsis
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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.
Ideal for readers who:
- Seek memoirs that confront trauma, class and self-worth with real honesty.
- Are interested in the lifelong relationship between identity and the body.
- Want contemporary Irish life, survival and reinvention explored without flinching.
- Prefer emotionally direct nonfiction that is brave, searching and humane.
- About The Author
- Dr Katriona O'Sullivan is a professor of psychology and the bestselling author of Poor, winner of Biography of the Year and Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. The memoir has been translated into seven languages, adapted into a sold-out play at Dublin's Gate Theatre, and remained in Ireland's top-ten nonfiction chart for two years. A regular commentator on the BBC and across Irish and international media, she has spoken at Westminster, the UN and UNESCO. Born in Coventry to Irish parents, her early life was marked by poverty, addiction, teenage pregnancy and homelessness. In 1998, she moved to Dublin, where she entered Trinity College through the access programme and went on to earn a PhD in psychology. Now a professor at Maynooth University, she directs the National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education and leads the award-winning STEM Passport for Inclusion, which has supported over 10,000 young people from underserved communities into higher education and high-status careers.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399745956
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland, (23 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 150 x 32 mm
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