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Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz like soda pop. Her playmates are tearful and their mothers are terrified, keeping them locked indoors. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a feeling of power that she never gets at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.

Having conducted over 100 hours of interviews with 60 British women aged 16-25, Nancy Tucker - the author of The Time In Between, an ‘astonishingly good’ (Sunday Times) memoir of a life consumed by eating disorders – explores what it’s like to suffer from serious mental illness as a young woman. With raw honesty, sensitivity and humour, That Was When People Started to Worry examines real experiences of anxiety, self-harm, borderline personality disorder, OCD, binge eating disorder, PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. Giving a voice to those like Abby who can’t speak out themselves, Tucker presents a unique window into the day-to-day trials of living with an unwell mind.

Georgia Senator Robert Hawkins Grant, a strong contender to eventually become the first black president, is heavily favored to win reelection. But nine days before the election, a reporter covering the campaign is murdered, and Senator Grant is falsely linked to the crime.

"Era bastato così poco, pensai. Così poco per sentirmi così potente." Una mattina di primavera, un solo, velocissimo attimo. Chrissie sa fare un sacco di cose: per esempio, sa come rubare qualche caramella dal negozietto all'angolo senza farsi scoprire, sa come nascondersi giocando a nascondino senza farsi trovare, e sa qual è il muro migliore per fare le verticali. Ma adesso ha un segreto. E avere un segreto le fa sentire un piacevole solletico alla pancia, come quando ha bevuto troppa Coca.