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The darkly funny, fiercely honest debut novel about a spirited young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.

You’re strange and wrong. You’ve known it from the beginning.

This is the voice that rings in your ears. Because you never say the right thing. You’re a disappointment to everyone. You’re a far cry from beautiful – and your thoughts are ugly too.

You seem bound to fail, bound to break.

But you know what it is to laugh with your best friend, to feel the first tentative tingles of attraction, to take exquisite pleasure in the affront of your unruly body.

You just need to find your place.

From dead pets and crashed cars to family traumas and misguided love affairs, Susannah Dickey's revitalizing debut novel plunges us into the private world of one young woman as she navigates her rocky way to adulthood.

©2020 Susannah Dickey (P)2020 Penguin Audio Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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There’s humour there’s youth there’s girlhood and you won’t understand the title until the end

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Written in the second person, the book is constructed as a series of key scenes from the life of a young woman; from her earliest memories to the point we leave her in her late twenties.
It’s painfully raw and beautifully observed, leavened by the humour between herself and her friend Rachel. The narrator is excellent: she gives the reading a sense of reading from diary extracts, which feels fitting, without the woodenness that it could do easily tip over into.
A strong recommend - probably more for a female readership, but I’d urge men to read it too.

Humour and rawness

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The narrators voice is perfect
I love the blatancy of the topics ... I imagine it will put some people out of their comfort zone but you can only love it!

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brave, beautiful, sometimes brutal story of a young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way.

Brave

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