Post-Traumatic (novel)

The novel follows an outwardly successful lawyer working at a psychiatric hospital who struggles with hypocritical thoughts and an eating disorder after experiencing sexual violence.

Vivian is an outwardly successful seeming woman in her 30s who lives in New York City and has a job as a lawyer advocating for mentally ill patients who have been institutionalised.

Online dating she meets Matthew, a handsome man who seems enamoured of her, and focuses on turning herself into the perfect woman he would find attractive.

After failing to free a teenage patient from the psychiatry ward she has been confined to Vivian abruptly quits her job to focus on writing.

At a mutual friend's wedding Vivian tries to kiss Elliot who rebuffs her and then snaps, revealing Pauline's eating disorder to the entire bridal party and throwing a drink at her.