She has a journalist’s clear eye for detail and conviction and passion to explore all sides of a story with scientific research. When her 13 year old daughter Kitty, suddenly develops anorexia, Harriet is in denial at first. Kitty is intelligent. She wrote a paper about eating disorders once. She is someone who usually bounces back from the down times in life. Their family is not one where her parents are critical of her, in fact she places very high expectations on herself. At first her mom thinks it’s a phase she’s going through. But as the weeks go by and she continues to lose weight and restrict to a dangerous level there’s no denying anymore. Particularly after a terrible trip to the hospital where Kitty is in the ICU for three days.