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How to Build a Girl

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How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran follows Johanna Morrigan, a teenager from a working-class family, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a sharp-tongued music critic. Set in Britain during the early 1990s, the novel explores her journey of self-discovery, ambition, and the pursuit of identity through the world of music journalism.
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You might like this book if you enjoy coming-of-age stories filled with wit, humour, and self-discovery. It offers a candid exploration of a young woman's journey to reinvent herself in pursuit of her dreams, while navigating the complexities of adolescence and identity against a vibrant cultural backdrop.

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Soon to be a major film directed by Coky Giedroyc and starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite

My name’s Johanna Morrigan.

The Sunday Times Number One coming-of-age bestseller from the author of How To Be a Woman - soon to be a major motion picture.

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The Sunday Times Number One coming-of-age bestseller from the author of How to Be a Woman – soon to be a major motion picture.

Soon to be a major film directed by Coky Giedroyc and starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan, and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite.

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 paperback, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman.

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Caitlin Moran's How to Build a Girl is praised for its candid and humourous exploration of adolescence and self-discovery, with critics highlighting its witty and daring narrative. The novel is both entertaining and insightful, with Moran's sharp and lively prose providing plenty of laughs along the way. It has been compared to Portnoy's Complaint for its honest and unrestrained approach to topics often regarded as taboo, and is described as both big-hearted and hilariously observant.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529103199

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ebury Press

Edition: Media tie-in

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

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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