A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive' Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation.
'A memoir of flesh and redemption, told with scorching intensity and clear-eyed, universal truth' Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty'Raw memoir of sex and romance and addiction ... To describe this book as soul-baring is to undersell its bloodied candour' ObserverRachel Resnick is a self-confessed Love Junkie. Her life has consisted of a continuous stream of men, all of whom have treated her badly, and yet she chose them and has convinced herself that she cannot live without them. Obsessive and possessive, she allows herself to be humiliated and degraded in her pursuit of love. Finding herself single, broke, depressed and childless, Rachel is determined to break the cycle. But to do this, she has to face the troubled past that she has been trying desperately to escape. Looking back on her damaged childhood and lifelong pattern of ruinous relationships, Love Junkie describes Rachel's harrowing emotional journey from addiction and despair to intimacy and hope, which gives her the chance to come to terms with her past and find a way to heal her damaged life.
'A memoir of flesh and redemption, told with scorching intensity and clear-eyed, universal truth' Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty'Raw memoir of sex and romance and addiction ... To describe this book as soul-baring is to undersell its bloodied candour' ObserverRachel Resnick is a self-confessed Love Junkie. Her life has consisted of a continuous stream of men, all of whom have treated her badly, and yet she chose them and has convinced herself that she cannot live without them. Obsessive and possessive, she allows herself to be humiliated and degraded in her pursuit of love. Finding herself single, broke, depressed and childless, Rachel is determined to break the cycle. But to do this, she has to face the troubled past that she has been trying desperately to escape. Looking back on her damaged childhood and lifelong pattern of ruinous relationships, Love Junkie describes Rachel's harrowing emotional journey from addiction and despair to intimacy and hope, which gives her the chance to come to terms with her past and find a way to heal her damaged life.