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How to Build a Girl

(Paperback, Media tie-in)

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

How to Build a Girl

Contributors:

By (Author) Caitlin Moran

ISBN:

9781529103199

Publisher:

Ebury Publishing

Imprint:

Ebury Press

Publication Date:

2nd July 2020

UK Publication Date:

14th May 2020

Edition:

Media tie-in

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Narrative theme: Coming of age

Dewey:

823.92

Prizes:

Short-listed for Specsavers National Book Award 2014 (UK)

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

368

Dimensions:

Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 126mm

Weight:

250g

Description

The Sunday Times Number One coming-of-age bestseller from the author of How To Be a Woman - soon to be a major motion picture. Soon to be a major film directed by Coky Giedroyc and starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite 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. A Number One Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and paperback, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman.

Reviews

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 valuableMoran 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 Satan. Laughing out loud is just the start -- Zoe Williams * The Guardian *
spirited coming of age novel romps from strength to strengthIm a Moran fan -- Lionel Shriver * The Times *

Author Bio

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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