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The Woman Who Thought Too Much: A Memoir

The Woman Who Thought Too Much: A Memoir

by JoanneLimburg (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life. She knew that something was wrong, but it would take many painful years of searching to find someone who could explain her symptoms.

The Woman Who Thought Too Much is a vividly honest, beautifully told and darkly witty memoir about the quest to understand and manage a life with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 326
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Jan 2011
ISBN 10: 1843547031
ISBN 13: 9781843547037
Book Overview: 'Can a writer be too honest? At times you want to close this book to protect its subject.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian An intensely honest, riveting and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Media Reviews

Her prose . . . is disciplined, directional, and thankfully not without humor. . . . She presents a tale of self-acceptance, and that is something most of us could benefit from in an egocentric world that expects airbrushed perfection. Jewish Chronicle


At times you want to close this book to protect its subject from your scrutiny. . . . She brings insight and a rueful wit to her story, which is interesting not only for her fellow walking wounded, but for writers and would-be writers. --Hilary Mantel, author, Wolf Hall

Her prose . . . is disciplined, directional, and thankfully not without humor. . . . She presents a tale of self-acceptance, and that is something most of us could benefit from in an egocentric world that expects airbrushed perfection. --Jewish Chronicle

Author Bio
Joanne Limburg was born in London in 1970, and studied Philosophy at Cambridge. She is the author of two poetry collections. Femenismo (Bloodaxe, 2000) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize; Paraphernalia (Bloodaxe, 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and son, and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalen College.