Svetlana Pavlova is a writer, a graduate of Creative Writing School and WLAG, as well as a master's degree in Literary Mastery at HSE . The heroine of the novel "Hunger" Lena thirty years . She has a clear established life: a career, a mortgage, parties, friends. And also bulimia: for more than ten years she has been on a diet, breaks down, starves again - and so in a circle. One day Lena meets a man suffering from kleptomania . Thus begins the story of mutual healing from a disease that allegedly does not exist, which they do not know how to treat and about which they are ashamed to talk in society. Hunger is a novel about how difficult it is to fight against the standards of beauty and the ideal body; how the idea of self-love turns from banality and truism into a rule of life. There's foul language in the book!