Imprint: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Published: 09/04/2015
ISBN: 9780091949013
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 126mm
Weight: 239g
RRP: £8.99
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**
Imprint: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Published: 09/04/2015
ISBN: 9780091949013
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 126mm
Weight: 239g
RRP: £8.99
Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny
A Portnoy's Complaint for girls… when I see this book described as "laugh-out-loud funny" I feel affronted; it could make you laugh out loud with one hand tied behind its back, while wanking itself off to fantasies of Satan. Laughing out loud is just the start
spirited coming of age novel romps from strength to strength…I’m a Moran fan
This isn’t a sleek, slick novel, but it is a rambunctious, raw-edged, silly-profound and deeply relatable guide to what your worst mistakes can teach you, and it has much to offer teenagers both actual and inner
I have so much love for Caitlin Moran
Binge-read all of #HowToBuildAGirl in one sitting. Even missed supper. A first
She writes with breathtaking brio…Moran shows her shining soul — which is even more remarkable than her wit — when she writes about being young, looking for love and the utter vileness of the class system . . .almost every page has something on it which makes you smile, makes you sad or makes you think — often all three at once, in one sentence
A riotous read with jokes galore cut through with lightly handled serious observations about the nature of poverty and the challenges of emerging female sexuality. It is also stunningly rude…
Exuberant, funny coming-of-age tale with a highly-literate, resourceful Wolverhampton teen at its centre. As building girls goes this is one alternative instruction manual every woman should read
The self-conscious agonies of precocious yet sensitive Dolly ring painfully true, while the witty sex scenes, boozy anecdotes and one-liners make this great fun…