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{{Infobox book | name = Ill Feelings (paperback) (kindle) Ill Feelings: stories of unexplained illness | image = IllFeelingsbook.jpg | caption = | author = [[Alice Hattrick]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[United Kingdom]] (alternative cover), [[Australia]] | language = English | subject = [[ME/CFS]], [[medically unexplained physical symptoms]], literary criticism, gender bias, [[medical gaslighting]], [[stigma and discrimination]] | genre = Memoir | publisher = Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), Scribe publications (Australia) | pub_date = Aug 25, 2021 | media_type = Paperback, kindle | pages = 360 | isbn = 9781913097646, 9781922310149 | website = https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/ill-feelings }} ==Background== [[Alice Hattrick]]'s mother became ill with [[ME/CFS]] when Alice was eight; diagnosis took two years. Alice also developed ME/CFS as a child, and remains ill. ''Ill Feelings'' reflects on Alice's experirnces, and those of other disabled writers, and the the attitudes of the medical profession and society in general on [[contested illness|poorly understood]] or [[medically unexplained physical symptoms|unexplained illness]].<ref name="TLS-review">{{Cite web | title = Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick | date = 2021-08-25|publisher=Times Literary Supplement|language=en-GB | url = https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ill-feelings-alice-hattrick-book-review-jonathan-taylor/ | last = Taylor | first = Jonathan | authorlink = |access-date=2022-04-09|quote=}}</ref> ==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 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."<ref name="publisher">https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/ill-feelings</ref> (source: Fitzcarraldo Editions) ==Reception== *Feb 2022, [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ill-feelings-alice-hattrick-book-review-jonathan-taylor/ Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick] book review - Times Literary Supplement *Sep 2021, [https://mapmagazine.co.uk/mind-over-matter Kirsty Hendry responds to Alice Hattrick's new book Ill Feelings] - MAP Magazine review by a disabled reviewer * [https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/ill-feelings Ill Feelings] - Feature by The White Review ==Online presence== *[https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/ill-feelings Website] *Twitter *Facebook *YouTube ==See also== *[[Alice Hattrick]] *[[Myalgic encephalomyelitis]] (M.E.) *[[Contested illness]] *[[Stigma and discrimination]] ==Learn more== * [https://scribepublications.com.au/blog/chapter-one-ill-feelings Chapter 1: Ill Feelings extract] - Scribe publications ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Books]] [[Category:English books]] [[Category:Memoir books]] [[Category:Non-fiction books]]
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