Ill Feelings (Paperback)

Alice Hattrick

ISBN 10: 1913097641 / ISBN 13: 9781913097646

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2021

About this Item

Paperback. In 1995 Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother's and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin's lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick's genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ill Feelings (Paperback)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, London
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913097641
• ISBN 13: 9781913097646
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelingsblends memoir, medical history, biography and literary non-fiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.

About the Author

Alice Hattrick’s criticism and interviews have appeared in publications such as frieze magazine, ArtReview and The White Review. She completed an MA in Critical Writing in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in 2013, and a BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in 2008. She has been involved in projects and events at South London Gallery, Goldsmiths Centre for Feminist Research, ICA, Horse Hospital, The Photographers’ Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, the Barbican, Wysing Arts Centre and Raven Row. She was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize in 2016. Ill Feelings is her first book.