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How to Build a Girl

By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
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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…

©2014 Caitlin Moran (P)2014 Penguin Audio Literature & Fiction Funny Comedy Feel-Good Thought-Provoking Witty

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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.

Fly on the wall of a teenagers life.

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As a 44 year old man I consider the time I've spent digesting this book as a strange kind of cultural exchange exercise. Having recently become a dad to 2 daughters the title swung it for me but I have to be honest it's not exactly what I had in mind. On reflection this was even better than what I was expecting and if there's a moral to all this it's that boys and girls aren't so different. We all want to be loved, we all want to make our mark in the world and we all need to masterbate from time to time. Well performed, this is a fun and funny page turner. A real reminder how crap the teenage years actually are.

Cultural eye opener

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What a wonderful listen. Hilarious and delightful. Exquisitely written. Beautifully narrated. I love Jo-Hannah Morrigan

Hilarious and delightful

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Does exactly what it says on the cover. Brilliant observations from the midlands and the 80s and 90s music scene (the Phil Oakey one is my favourite of them all 😭) fantastically rude and genuinely laugh out loud (while out in public walking my dog 🤪) funny.

Louise Brealy gives so much to the narration, An amazing performance, and it’s great to see its being turned into a film this year.

Brilliant

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Over the top bad language and frequent sex references - but easy to follow and quite moving in places. I enjoyed it overall.

Interesting read.

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