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|author= Mona Awad
|title= 13 Ways of Looking At A Fat Girl
|rating= 4
|genre= General fiction
|summary= Liz is fat. Not just plump or chubby or, as my director often describes people, ''bubbly'', but full on, capital F fat. It's perhaps one of the frustrations of this book that we never get a number, because she's clearly obsessed with what the scale shows, but won't share that reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128485</amazonuk>
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|author= Jenny Colgan
|summary= I love getting in on the ground floor. Thanks to this very website I was one of the first in this country to read the ''Twilight'' series and was smitten from the start. We'll ignore the films, the books are worth a look! In a completely different genre, but no less a lucky fluke it was through here that I stumbled across [[East of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put in an old-fashioned baggsy for whatever followed. On reading the second of the series [[Nothing Sacred by David Thorne]] I commented that I hoped that in the next outing Connell would see ''him up against, or siding with, some kick-ass-don't-take-it female.'' ''So far his women do tend to be 'birds or victims' ''. I'm pleased to say he's moving in the right direction… women are central to this story one way and another. For the first time he's given us female characters who (despite their plot-device roles, which is varied and not always predictable) are stronger than they look – strong in a number of different ways – he hasn't simply opted for my "kick-ass" option, he's more subtle than that.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>
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