{"title":"Books by Hadley Freeman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008322670","title":"Good Girls","description":"A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALA searing memoir from Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, about one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses. ‘A clear-eyed view of a debilitating and misunderstood illness’ Guardian‘A gripping story’ Financial TimesFrom the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Combining personal experience with deep reporting, this profoundly honest and hopeful story details Freeman's long journey to recovery.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685705261429,"sku":"9780008322700","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43128993677490,"sku":"9780008322670","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008322700.jpg?v=1792598862"},{"product_id":"9780008322663","title":"House of Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ TelegraphAfter her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end – yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala’s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz. By piecing together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France – each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War. And alongside her great-uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival, House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home – issues that are deeply relevant today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201239351474,"sku":"9780008322663","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008322663.jpg?v=1785658944"},{"product_id":"nora-ephron-me-hb","title":"Everything is Nora","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this deeply intimate and original biography, Hadley Freeman traces the life and lasting influence of Nora Ephron, one of the most beloved and culturally significant women of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNora Ephron is everywhere. She's quoted in television shows and Oscar ceremonies, name-dropped in divorce memoirs, and invoked by generations of women seeking advice on how to live. More than a decade after her death, she remains the lighthouse: the voice who told us what table to buy, how to survive heartbreak and what it meant to be the heroine of your own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything Is Nora is the biography Nora deserves: funny, sharp, honest and thoroughly researched. Hadley Freeman draws on original interviews with Nick Pileggi, Rob Reiner, Meg Ryan, Joan Didion's family, Calvin Trillin and many others, as well as unpublished letters, script drafts and archival material, to examine how a Jewish girl from Beverly Hills – the daughter of two brilliant but troubled screenwriters – became the defining female voice of late twentieth-century America as a journalist, filmmaker, novelist and memoirist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of where heroines come from. It is also about how one woman still shows the rest of us, imperfectly and gratefully, how to live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495365779829,"sku":"9780008820480","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hadley-freeman.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}