How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that theres no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer!
"Rude, big-hearted, wise-cracking novel" -- Christina Patterson * The Sunday Times *
"Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny" -- Helen Fielding
"An entertaining read, with Moran in fine voice – hilarious, wild, imaginative and highly valuable…Moran is in danger of becoming to female masturbation what Keats was to Nightingales…" -- Barbara Ellen * The Observer *
"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 SatanLaughing out loud is just the start" -- Zoe Williams * The Guardian *
"spirited coming of age novel romps from strength to strength…I’m a Moran fan" -- Lionel Shriver * The Times *
"Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny" -- Helen Fielding
"An entertaining read, with Moran in fine voice – hilarious, wild, imaginative and highly valuable…Moran is in danger of becoming to female masturbation what Keats was to Nightingales…" -- Barbara Ellen * The Observer *
"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 SatanLaughing out loud is just the start" -- Zoe Williams * The Guardian *
"spirited coming of age novel romps from strength to strength…I’m a Moran fan" -- Lionel Shriver * The Times *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780091949006 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091949009 |
| Title | How to Build a Girl |
| Author | Caitlin Moran |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Specsavers National Book Awards 2014 (UK) |
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