Jemima J: A Novel - Hardcover

Green, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767905172 ISBN 13: 9780767905176

Publisher: Broadway, 2000

Synopsis

"If I had one wish in all the world, I wouldn't wish to win the lottery. Nor would I wish for true love. No, if I had one wish I would wish to have a model's figure, probably Cindy Crawford's, and I would extend that wish into having and keeping a model's figure, no matter what I eat."

Jemima Jones is overweight. About 98 pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima's only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, Jemima has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself--as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl of her dreams. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails-- no small feat.

This is just the beginning of Jemima's transformation, a process that takes her through enormous physical and emotional change and halfway around the globe. First published in the UK to great fanfare, Jemima J spent nine weeks on the bestseller lists. Jane Green's brilliant wit, warm sense of humor and honesty ensure that her success will continue--on both sides of the Atlantic.

Jemima J is a heroine who'll work her way into your heart, making you laugh through foible and folly as she sets out to reinvent her life and along the way learns a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is. With a fast-paced plot and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Praise for Jemima J:

"Green writes with acerbic wit about the laws of the dating jungle...this novel's as comforting as a bacon sandwich."
--Sunday Express

"The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting."
--Cosmopolitan

"A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart--her stomach."
--Woman's Own

"Compulsively readable. The ultimate makeover novel made over with irony...one for the beach."
--London Sunday Times

About the Author

Jane Green worked for many years as a journalist with occasional forays into public relations for film, television, and the odd celebrity. The author of three other novels, Straight Talking, Bookends, and Mr. Maybe, she lives in London with her husband and new baby.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0767905172
• ISBN 13: 9780767905176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384