Monkey Taming, released this Thursday, tells the story of a young girl, Jessica, as she descends into the illness and then battles to tame 'The Monkey' which is driving her towards death. Now 19, the former Western Mail Writer of the Future has used her experience as the basis of her debut novel. Judith, who was born and grew up in Cardiff, was just 13 years old when she developed the so-called slimming disease. The novel tells the story of an anorexic - a story which mirrors that of Judith herself who confesses that she came close to killing herself, shrivelled to less than six stone, and suffered from depression. She's 19, is reading English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and has just released her first novel, Monkey Taming.īut behind the plaudits which the hard-hitting book is attracting lies a darker reality. JUDITH FATHALLAH is your typical over-achiever.
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