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|title=Fashionistas
|author=Sarra Manning
|reviewer=Zoe PageMorris
|genre=Teens
|summary=Washed-up child star Hadley Harlow is coming to London to start over, but she's in for a bumpy ride as she wakes up to what life in the real world is all about.
|website=http://www.sarramanning.blogspot.com
|isbn=978-0340932216
|amazonukaznuk=<amazonuk>034093221X</amazonuk>|amazonusaznus=034093221X|cover=<amazonus>034093221X</amazonus>
}}
There was a time when I discovered all my new favourite authors through magazine giveaways. [[Kate Cann]] was one of these... and Sarra Manning was another. I fell in love with her years ago on a train journey from Vienna to Salzburg. One of her earlier books from the [[''Diary of a Crush]] '' series had come free with the latest issue of ''J17'' and I devoured it. Reading about the "decadence" of Edie and Dylan scoffing chips and champagne in a swanky hotel suite had me hooked, and all those years later I can remember word for word some of the passages I read over and over again. Well, that mag may now be defunct, but happily Sarra herself is not, and the writing that got me all excited all those years ago is still whizzing around.
This book, the second in Manning's new ''Fashionistas'' series, went to the top of my Must Read pile when I spotted the "Not Suitable for younger readers" disclaimer on the back, and if you've ever read the aforementioned Edie and Dylan books you'll understand why. Those books were rude! And boy, did I love them. However 7 years on and I don't blush as easily. This book was lots of things - funny, intriguing, inspired in places - but it wasn't all that daring, and I struggled to find anything the parents of even a year 7 girl would truly object to. It's a high school book rather than a junior school one, but it's not outrageously naughty.