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The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback!
The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback!
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The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback!
My name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself.
I don't really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn't exactly go to plan...
A Number One Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback, from Caitlin Moran, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman. (Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf')
Caitlin Moran's second novel, How to Be Famous, sees the return of Dolly Wilde in a riotous coming of age novel set in the epicentre of Britpop London. Out Now.
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A vivid and humorous coming-of-age novel, How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran is celebrated for its wit, rawness, and insightful commentary on poverty and female sexuality. Reviewers commend its laugh-out-loud humour and the relatable journey of the protagonist, Johanna Morrigan, as she reinvents herself. The narrative is infused with Moran's characteristic brio, offering a blend of personal growth and sharp observations on class and identity.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780091949013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 April 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ebury Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 239g
Pages: 352
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About the Author
Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill Murray. She published a children's novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16, and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point, she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes 'the' as 'hte'. Her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 28 countries, and won the British Book Awards' Book of the Year 2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto, were Sunday Times bestsellers, and her novel, How to Build a Girl, debuted at Number One, and is currently being adapted as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose d'Or-winning Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves with her sister, Caroline. Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23, and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as 'a very sexual humanitarian'.
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