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Nancy Tucker

Biography

Nancy Tucker

Nancy Tucker is a 21-year-old author and nanny. She suffered from both anorexia and bulimia nervosa throughout her teens, but is now on the road to recovery and began a degree at Oxford University to study Experimental Psychology in 2015. She lives in Oxford and London.

Nancy Tucker

Books by Nancy Tucker

The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope
by Nancy Tucker - Memoir, Nonfiction

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought long and hard about it, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: "I want to be thin." Over the next 12 years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalized, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa. She left school, then rejoined; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall by food.