Product Description

It's back to the eighties with an hilarious and poignant tale of the path we choose to walk and what could have been, had we taken another route in our tantrum-ridden teens.

BE WARNED!
This novel contains, bad hair, multi-coloured socks and shocking dress sense.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #431915 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Company on SWEET FA
'Girlie fun guaranteed to see off any World Cup fatigue.'

Good Book Guide on SWEET FA
'Perfect beach-reading for anyone who is missing their favourite sitcom while on holiday.'

The Bookseller on SWEET FA
'A tale with learning, coping, changing and making a stand very much at its centre. It's good'

Customer Reviews

This book changed my life!!! lol
The opening of the book gripped me immediately as I'd spent a miserable few months working for Betterware (I remember spending 5 hours in the pouring rain collecting books and ending up with one order for some lice shampoo and a luminous - spelt in the brochure loo-minous - bog seat). The rest of it didn't disappoint, I don't know of another writer who mixes comedy and tragedy so effortlessly, I was laughing on one page and nearly crying a few pages later. It goes far deeper than 'chick lit'. This book inspired me to start writing again, so I took it back to the library, ordered her other 2 books, then looked on the notice board for a writing group. There was one held in the library, run by Siobhan Curham!!! She's as lovely and down to earth as her characters, and why she is not a best seller and household name is a mystery. She deserves it both for her talent and her modesty. (and for not getting food poisoning when I made trifle).

Blooming eck it's brilliant.
Hello to whoever had the sense to find out more about the wonderful Siobhan Curham. This book brought back every one of my teenage stomach churning, heartaching, euphoric and floating on love you've only imagined yet feelings and i am thankful. Just when you think life has knocked every last childhood daydream and crush out of your heart and replaced them with the pangs of dread and worry that grown up life throws at you on a daily basis, you read this book and it all comes flooding back. I smiled, laughed and cried was always grateful for the reminder that it is still good to dream about your first love and teenage years and all the angst that came with it and it just took me back to what i thought was the worst time of my life and realised IT WAS GREAT! You should read this if your having an identity crisis because you will remember who you are. Thank you Siobhan and sorry if i've gone on a bit. It was a blooming good experience though, enough to make me want to write my first review and you will too if you read it! M.xxx

Enjoyable but disrupted by inaccurate pop-culture references
I read this book very quickly, really into the story parts set in 1984 and 1985 (though the modern day parts aren't well realised in comparison). However I was really disappointed to be jerked out of the story on more than one occasion by details that hadn't been checked before they were put in as historical colour.

I am looking forward to reading more by Siobhan Curham though.