{"id":413427,"date":"2026-04-23T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:40:12","slug":"hungry-by-katriona-osullivan-review-the-story-of-one-womans-body-and-why-she-hates-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413427\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry by Katriona O\u2019Sullivan review: The story of one woman\u2019s body \u2013 and why she hates it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s follow-up to \u2018Poor\u2019, her bestselling 2023 memoir, may not be as essential \u2013 but it\u2019s a searingly honest account of the author\u2019s lifelong struggle with her traumatised body\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Great insight: Katriona O\u2019Sullivan. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/17736a11-0510-4ed0-83eb-5e67f0746e04.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Great insight: Katriona O\u2019Sullivan. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Following up a critically acclaimed, commercially successful memoir can be a tricky undertaking for any author.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If the sequel covers the same events as the previous book, then readers are inclined to wonder if they are being offered up scraps of narrative which didn\u2019t make it into the original volume, rather than unique content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s follow-up to \u2018Poor\u2019, her bestselling 2023 memoir, may not be as essential \u2013 but it\u2019s a searingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42622,93,61,60,178203,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-413427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-katriona-osullivan","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}