Counting the cost of Alana Goldsmith's death from anorexia

By Harriet Alexander
Updated September 22 2014 - 10:09am, first published August 30 2014 - 12:08am
Judy Goldsmith and her daughter Simone. Photo: Ben Rushton
Judy Goldsmith and her daughter Simone. Photo: Ben Rushton

Shortly after 2pm on the wettest day of July in 2011, a 23-year-old woman wearing black patent leather shoes stepped off an inner west rail platform and into the path of a moving train. It had been raining all week and Alana Goldsmith had never been more unhappy.