Geneen Roth

Roth has run retreats on compulsive eating since the early eighties, and Women Food and God is the distilled argument: that how a person eats reproduces what they believe about deserving, control and comfort, and that dieting treats the symptom. She holds no clinical qualification and does not present the work as therapy; the authority offered is thirty years of running groups. The retreats and courses are the business the books feed, which a reader should know going in. She and her husband lost their savings in the Madoff fraud, and Lost and Found followed, on what money had been standing in for.