What About ME - Softcover

Kate Figes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405048840 ISBN 13: 9781405048842

Publisher: Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

Dear Diary Its my 14th birthday tomorrow and Im going shopping with Mum. Id rather go with Ruby, Fran, Nat, Hayley, Saskia, and Serena but I need her credit card. Mum has put on SOOOOO much weight. If I ever got THAT FAT Id have to kill myself. And she told me my MY bum looked big! SUE Sat 16th June 22:59 ANGELA JAMES Ange DarlingTop Shop is living hell! I spent a fortune on Frankie and she hasnt even said Thank You! Next time Ill give her 100 and be done with it. And now the whole gang are downstairs, screaming and hugging each other in front of a vampire movie. They resemble very noisy bees, swarming into the house, depositing trainers and heading straight for the fridge. Mother-daughter relations come under strain during one particularly dramatic year in the life of the Wilcox family. But two very different versions of the same story emerge through Sues emails to her sister, and the inimitable voice of 14-year-old Frankie in her diary. The angst of middle age and adolescence may be at opposite ends of the spectrum, but perhaps they have more in common than meets the eye?Highly promotable author. Guaranteed review attention.

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About the Author

Kate Figes was born in 1957 and lives in London with her husband and their two children. Her previous books are Because of her Sex: the Myth of Equality in Britain; The Cosmopolitan Book of Short Stories (1995); The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (1996 ); Life After Birth (1998) and The Terrible Teens (2002). She is a journalist and is Books Editor for You magazine. WHAT ABOUT ME? is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405048840
• ISBN 13: 9781405048842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400