 | Cherries in the Snow by Emma Forrest
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £0.01 it may be chic lit (why do light-hearted books about women have to have such childish covers) but it's brilliant. forrest has a real knack for arbitrary detail.
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 | Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl (Nancy Chan Novels) by Tracy Quan
Buy new: £3.79 / Used from: £0.01 she may be a hooker but it never occurred to her to apologise or feel the slightest bit of shame.
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 | Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Buy new: £2.54 / Used from: £0.01 this book makes childhood seem like the happy, wonderous place i'm sure it's supposed to be. a colourful and inspiring read.
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 | Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £3.25 / Used from: £0.01 anyone who has suffered from depression should read this. or should i say, anyone who knows someone with depression should read this; it's as close anyone will ever come to describe what it's like.
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 | More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.60 for the same reasons maybe, or maybe just because wurtzel is an amazing writer with such a strong voice and raw and complete honesty.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £0.01 a great story in the tradition of magical realism. in celebration of the senses and of the long-lost art of waiting.
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 | Shanghai Baby by Zhou Wei Hui
Buy new: £1.91 / Used from: £0.01 a read that's like walking along a dusty road on a hot summer day with nothing to do. anything can happen.
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 | Girl with a One-track Mind: Confessions of the Seductress Next Door by Abby Lee
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £1.48 because women think about sex just as much as men do. maybe more, judging from, well, most women i know!
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 | Liz Jones's Diary: How One Single Girl Got Married by Liz Jones
Buy new: £0.21 / Used from: £0.01 again, pardon the silly cover, but this is HILARIOUS. you'll find yourself screaming at jones to GET RID OF HIM. but he sure seems cute though...
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 | Playing Away by Adele Parks
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 this one is a bit embarrassing, but it's the best description i have ever read about what it's like to cheat.
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