Anxiety Disorders In Finding Audrey By Sophie Kinsella

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Lizard brains UNITE! Unless you've been living under a rock you, you're probably familiar with Sophie Kinsella. With a string of delectable and swoon-worthy romantic-comedy novels in her past, she has now turned her attention to the YA community. In her latest novel "Finding Audrey", Kinsella finds herself writing about the trials and tribulations that befall a girl and her family after she develops a severe anxiety disorder. Kinsella writes effortlessly of the war of wills that a person suffering from mental illness experiences. Warring between wanting to just ruminate in the sadness of your condition, but wanting to get better, all the whilst thinking you can't. Its a poignant and knowing little novel Kinsella crafts, one that is easy to

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