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'Eating disorders affect boys too... I want them to know they can get through it like I did'

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The Year I Didn’t Eat tells the story of Max, a 14-year-old boy who personifies his anorexia as ‘Ana’ and writes to her every day.

The powerful story, which is partially based on Sam’s own experiences, recently won Lancashire Book of the Year.The author, now 32, hopes his book will give a voice to boys struggling with eating disorders.“It was a topic that’s important to me and it’s not been that well covered in books before, Sam says.“I think a story about a young teenage boy going through anorexia is reasonably rare, even though it affects a lot of men and boys.“Perhaps because a lot of the resources and media that exist about eating disorders tend to be represented from a girl’s point of view, I think a lot of young men think “it doesn’t.

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