Author Rachael Oakes-Ash books + anthologies

Author

"She has a satirist’s eye for detail and nails it down with sugar-coated research. She’s aiming for a wide readership and deserves to get one because the book is funny, if breathless, and the issue is critical. It is nothing if not frank and fearless." ASCD

"Brave, funny and comfortingly honest…every woman will identify." GGDS

"We need more books like this one … a brave , honest and funny account of how isolating, unhealthy and downright unattractive it is to be bulimic." GGDS

"Many – too many – women will recognise themselves in Rachel’s descriptions of her years of tortured eating. This a report from the front, of a war we must stop, if women are to live in peace in their bodies." GGDS

"A searingly honest and important book. In “Good Girls Do Swallow” many a true word is spoken ingest."

Rachael’s first book, Good Girls Do Swallow, is published by Random House Penguin and is an autobiographical look into the world of eating disorders and body image. The book was published in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Germany and inspired the documentary of the same name on Foxtel’s The Lifestyle Channel.

Her second book Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better, also with Random House Penguin, explores female competition. Rachael travelled the world to interview over 50 high profile women in this in-depth look at turning competition from destructive to constructive.

Anthologies

Rachael has also contributed chapters to three anthologies.

John Marsden’s I Believe This (Penguin) – 100 Eminent Australians face life’s biggest question.

Jacinta Tynan’s Some Girls Do (Allen & Unwin) – my life as a teenager.

Tamara Steward and Jenny Valentish’s Your Mother Would Be Proud (Allen & Unwin) – true tales of mayhem and misadventure.