Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31500 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Synopsis
Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, better paid), her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? This is a novel about attraction, obsession and the meaning of true love.

Customer Reviews

Cliched and patronising
This book reads like a 'chick-lit by numbers'. It was described as 'the ultimate makeover story, with irony', yet by the end I was left to wonder where the hell the irony was? Where was any sort of self-awareness? Instead we have a really obvious story - fat girl has no friends, fat girl cries herself to sleep eating biscuits, fat girl gets thin and suddenly has an amazing life.

The characters had absolutely no depth, the only smiles the book raised were unintentional (i.e. creepy Jemima cutting out photos of models), and it's so unbelievably dated! The internet and internet dating may have seemed fresh back then, but now it's just cringeworthy.

Don't buy this book - spend the money on something better: perhaps biscuits. Just as long as you don't eat them a whole packet at a time - you don't want to end up like Jemima now, do you?

Jemima J - inspiration to all us curvacious women!!
I absolutely love this book, each time I have felt a little down about my weight-loss I have picked it up and read it and it lifts my spirits each time! Its just a lovely story told in a lovely sympathetic way and unlike most other books does not make the 'fat girl' a laughing figure or figure of fun. One of the other reviewers said that it doesn't go in-depth into eating disorders, but if you read between the lines the basic crux of the eating disorder that she has is a totally disapproving mother, but thats going much deeper into it....there is a jemima j in all of us (yes even the most skinny of skinny women will have image issues at some point in their lives), this is a must read for all women whatever their age, its inspirational, uplifting, made me laugh and made me cry, in the end it left me feeling very happy...Enjoy...

Amazing!
I can't believe that people have been slating this book. Although she became thin, she didn't have it all perfectly, she got shown that looks aren't everything when she gets hurt by her American boyfriend.
Plus it even said in the book that she still had all of her insecurities.
I absolutely love this book and can read it again and again and never get sick of it! I have blonde hair and green eyes with a toned body, and attention from men, but in the past this wasn't the case; so I can really relate to this book, and I think everyone can as well as we are all striving for perfection although maybe it isn't in this particular form, and I really think that this book is so positive and fresh and real. It sends such a powerful message and I am ever the optimist, and this book really helps you to feel that life is amazing, if you go for what you really want; you will eventually fulfil your dream. Buy the book is my advice :)