An overweight woman turns from ugly duckling to swan in British
novelist Greens American debut: a tale that offers plenty of
engaging plot twists but not much substance.Jemima spends many
secret hours pouring over fashion magazines, whose cheeky, how to
improve your [fill in the blank] tone the novel echoes. Its a
depressing activity, since Jemimaa good hundred pounds over the
limit for contemporary beautylooks nothing like the supermodels who
cavort through those glossy pages. Her job writing the household
hints column for a London newspaper bums her out too, as does the
fact that gorgeous Ben, the man of her dreams, adores her as a
friend but nothing more. When Jemima gets on the Internet for the
first time, she realizes that in cyberspace a little extra fat
doesn't matter if it isn't mentioned. So she begins an online
flirtation with Brad from L.A., who sends a picture and turns out
to be a real hunk. Thanks to a computer-enhanced photo of herself
(thinner all over), Brad wants Jemima to fly to California for a
rendezvous. So she loses weight, dyes her hair blond, and dons the
wardrobe of a sophisticated somebody. Now known as J.J., Jemima
gets to California and is so shocked that a man like Brad would be
interested in her that she wills herself to fall in love. But
something is wrong: sweet Ben never leaves her mind. Sure, Brad is
good-looking, but what else? Has Jemima met Mr. Perfect? Or should
she hold out for Benthat is, if she ever sees him again? (Readers
should not spend a lot of time worrying about this last
question.)Slightly unpredictable story development saves this from
exactly duplicating the vast mound of similar feel-good modern
fairy tales for women, but it lives in the same neighborhood.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight.
Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing.
But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she?
A brilliantly funny, honest novel from the author of Straight Talking, about ugly ducklings and swans, about attraction, addiction and the meaning of true love.
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