Nataliya Deleva is an author of novels, short stories, essays and book reviews in English and Bulgarian. Her latest novel is Arrival (2022), and her debut novel Four Minutes (2017) was recently translated into English. She lives in London.

Written by Nataliya Deleva

Photo of a young girl eating at a table indoors with an older man in the background, warmly lit setting.

When fear grew in my stomach, I starved myself just to survive

Hungry to survive an abusive childhood, I stopped eating. Years later, I learned the name of my eating disorder

by Nataliya Deleva