How to Build a Girl
by:
Caitlin Moran (author)
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...
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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…The brilliant Number One bestselling novel from Caitlin Moran, the award-
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780091949013 (0091949017)
Publisher: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
The introduction tried to make it obvious that the main character, Johanna, is not the author (Caitlin Moran), but frankly, it's just the same difference between Nancy Mitford's novels and her own family's biography. There are parts so heavily lifted from Moran's young life (growing up poor on a cou...
[My copy of this book was an uncorrected proof, provided to me gratis by the publisher, HarperColins, facilitated in this act of goodness by Edelweiss. I think this makes me a pawn of Murdoch now.] From the outside, Caitlin Moran can look a bit like a one-trick pony. Although she's been a journali...
11 years ago
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