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How to Build a Girl
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
A Number One Sunday Times bestseller, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman.
Now 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…
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- Linfo2
- 13-06-16
Hard listening!
Hard work all through. Strange way to write a book but probably appeal to some people!! Definitely a different mind set to me though!! Listen to a sample before buying is my advice
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- Kawie1
- 28-08-14
How to Build a Girl
How to Build a Girl is a coming of age story with a difference. It's gritty, truthful, filthy, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny!! And sometimes all the same time!
I think this is the book I'll be recommending to all of my friends this year!
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- Hazel
- 25-10-17
Fly on the wall of a teenagers life.
Very good read the narration was excellent. Only criticism is the fowl language used and the repetitive sex references but l wont be marking it down for that ....maybe lm just more prudish than the average listener but it would have been good to know before hand about the language.
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- J. A. Croucher
- 26-03-15
Beautifully written and performed.
I love Caitlin's refreshing frankness but having read some of her other work there were moments of déjà vue.
The performance would be hard to top.
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- Ewan Melling
- 22-10-17
Fan bloody tastic
Heartbreaking, mind bending, belly laughs a plenty. As a survivor of Wolverhampton in the 80s and 90s. I can tell you this book is bloody brill.
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- Rebecca
- 14-06-15
Quite simply the story for any woman!
One of the funniest, thrilling and most ostentatious stories, made all the better by having Louise Brealey read it to me. The characters came to live with her use of voices and I truly fell in love with Johanna/Dolly. An inspiration in novella.
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- Lucy
- 26-03-15
Fantastic narration of highly entertaining story
A supremely funny, filthy and clever book - and made one hundred per cent moreso by the flawless narration. Great stuff!
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- VLF
- 21-03-15
Brutally raw and wonderfully obnoxious
Not one to listen to with your Nan. Thoroughly enjoyed this. One of my favourite narrators.
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- TeresaD
- 25-01-15
Picked up momentum in the second half
I struggled to get into this at first, the protagonist being a troubled teenager from the Midlands wasn't something I could immediately relate to.
However, once she creates an alter ego the story picked up pace and interest, and by the end I was disappointed to say goodbye to both Johanna and Dolly.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-23
My favourite story in the world
I come back to How To Build A Girl over and over again. It’s one of my favourite stories and is so joyful at times, life affirming at others. Love all the 90s references as I was around the same age as Dolly during the period the book is set.
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