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Author Wardell, Heather, author.

Title Holding out for a zero / Heather Wardell.

Publication Info. [North Charleston, South Carolina] : [CreateSpace], [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC WARDELL, H    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F WARDELL, H.    Check Shelf
Description 233 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "I'm doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It's the only thing I can do, so I will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don't take in, and it will help her stay alive." Twenty years ago, fourteen-year-old Valerie rushed off for lunch with her boyfriend instead of properly putting away a packet of balloons, and her little brother choked to death on his third birthday. In response, Valerie locked down every aspect of her life so she could never lose control like that again, and she's still doing that today. So when her sister Gloria is found comatose after an apparently random attack, Valerie is desperate to do something, anything, to save her only remaining sibling. But as a financial controller for a "nothing bigger than a size six" fashion designer, she has no medical background and no idea of how to help. But she simply must find a way. Since Gloria has always wanted to be a size zero, Valerie hits on food as the answer: by eating less, she will lose the weight Gloria now can’t and somehow save her sister that way. But when “eating less” turns into a frantic starvation diet to reach size zero before Gloria dies, will Valerie’s self control save her sister or destroy her own life?
Subject Sisters -- Fiction.
Coma -- Fiction.
Single women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Self-control -- Fiction.
Reducing diets -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781539675662 pbk.
1539675661 pbk.
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