Contents

Learning to Eat my Mother, where my Mother is the Teacher 7 (M)eat 9 A Young Girl Considers Her Reflection 10 Corpus Christi Procession 11 Swing 13 Swimming Lesson 14 Hunger Strikes Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) 16 Choke 17 Second Communion 19 Forty Days 20 Doll Game 21 Beached Whale 23 Lighthouse 24 Hunger Strikes Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) 25 Second Family 26 Alternative Medicine 33 Cure for Anaemia 34 Count Ugolino or History’s Vaguest Cannibal 36 Selfie 37 Hunger Strikes Veronica Giuliani (1660–1727) 38 Researching the Irish Famine 39 Cork Schoolgirl Considers the GPO, Dublin 2016 41 The Talk 42 Big Girl 43 Supper 44 What it Would be Like to Eat a Girl 45 The Preacher’s Daughter 46 In Memory of Mary Tyler Moore 47 Hunger Strikes Columba of Rieti (1467–1501) 48 Diet 49