The Pulling
Dumont, Adele
When I¿ve been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm¿s shriek.
When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania ¿ compulsive hair-pulling ¿ it makes sense of much of her life to date. The seemingly harmless quirk of her late teens, which rapidly developed into almost uncontrollable urges and then int...