While all writing in a consistent and compelling voice Wix employs different literary techniques for each of the chapters – described by the publisher as ’21 snapshots of a life’.

I now have a healthier relationship with food, in that I allow myself to enjoy it for what it is, but her patterns of refusing food as a way of investing in a future self and bingeing as a punishment for a past self were familiar, as was her sense of not wanting to eat in front of other people for fear of being found disgusting or being judged for having an appetite and not being the feminine ideal of small and bird like. As they say, you never stop grieving a loved one, you simply learn to live with the grief – the wound heals over while the scar tissue remains.

One such landed directly with me, having recently been interviewed for and offered a job which on paper was perfect and that the organisation thought me ideal for, only for the reality not to be a good fit for me personally. Delicacy is a gut-wrenching read which discusses themes we can all relate to, but this book also fills us with hope as Katy teaches us not to let your grief consume you, but to learn how to live with it. You don’t really look at what you’re wearing or have time to brush your hair – wearing the same pair of shoes that were not going to give me blisters because I knew I’d be walking up and down hospital corridors.

Here there’s a welcome admission that ‘being positive can come across as really creepy if you’re not careful’. The idea that, contrary to notions of child-like freedom and frivolity, by eleven years old Wix had already developed an acute sense of self-awareness, of her perception in the outside world, and the inhibiting perfectionism that so often accompanies that recognition.However, it is also -and rather unfortunately, a book that would strongly benefit from an extra edit or two, as ultimately it read a little too “all over the (cake? The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. When it was diagnosed, Wix thought, “So this is what life is really like: a series of terrible events.