Fat Chance
Lyndsay Russell
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Taps right into the Size Zero/Plus Size debate, and the celebrity-weight-obsessed magazine market
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A light-hearted take on an endlessly popular subject area
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Highly motivated, promotable author will generate media coverage
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For all fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jill Mansell and Marian Keyes
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Dedicated to any woman who's ever been a few pounds overweight
Sad, lonely Sharon Plunkett is size eighteen. She's tried every fad, every diet and every cream, but like stains of grease on a pure silk blouse, her rolls of fat refuse to budge. The man of her dreams isn't interested, and her skinny friend Debbee only uses her to look good.
But all that changes when Sharon magically finds herself in a fantastic, reversed world - where it's suddenly 'in' to be fat, and 'out' to be slim!
Fêted and adored for her curvaceous body and stunning looks, she goes from supermodel to Hollywood icon in a matter of months.
Until... it all starts to go very wrong.
A deliciously wicked satire, Fat Chance bites back at the 'skinny insanity' currently gripping the western world - Size Zero, celebrity weight-obsessed magazines, the fashion and advertising industries, high society and Hollywood.
Read the Guardian article on the trend towards 'bigger chick lit' >>
Listen to Lyndsay Russell talking about Fat Chance on Southern Counties Radio
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| release date: |
September 2008 |
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£10.99 |
| ISBN13: |
9781842433003 |
| binding: |
paperback |
| format: |
Royal (234 X 156mm) |
| extent: |
384 |
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AUTHOR DETAILS
Lyndsay Russell is an artist and a photographer who lives in Kingston with husband Mike, and daughter Tippi. She is the co-author with her daughter of the bestselling children's picture book The Rainbow Weaver. |
REVIEWS
'A funny, weird satire on size zero perfectionism - and I loved it.'
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Natasha Harding - The Sun
FULL REVIEW
Sharon is fed up with being fat and will try anything in her quest to lose weight, except exercising and eating less.
When a leaflet comes her way promising to have the cure for being overweight forever, she can't resist.
She visits Dr. Marvel in his private surgery in town and he gives her a potion - and overnight her life changes beyond all recognition.
She goes from being an ad agency admin girl to becoming the world's next supermodel, without losing an inch.
That's because in the world Sharon now inhabits big is beautiful and skinny is so last season. A funny, weird satire on size zero perfectionism - and I loved it.
Natasha Harding
The Sun
''A perfect, filling winter read!''
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- Take A Break's Fiction Feast
FULL REVIEW
Poor Sharon Plunkett - size 18 and surrounded by skinny minnies, everything in life seems to sideline the plump and celebrate the slim. Until Sharon finds herself at Dr Marvel's Miracle Weight Clinic. She drinks the potion...and steps into a strange new world where advertising hoardings and magazines spill over with pictures of gorgeous size 20 celebs. Suddenly, life's on the up for 'Shaz'. With her platinum hair and voluptuous figure, she's the perfect model for Z&ZaK's ad campaign. She nets a footballer and becomes queen of the catwalk in the Big Doughnut. LA beckons as do the attentions of screen god Brett Stone. But Sharon didn't read all the instructions...Suddenly her jeans feel looser, she craves carrots not cream cakes. Imaginative, at times sad, Fat Chance turns our obsession with body image on its head. A perfect, filling winter read!
Take A Break's Fiction Feast
''A delicious, page-turning novel.' Five stars'
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- Yours.co.uk
FULL REVIEW
A funny, wicked satire on Size Zero, celebrity weight obsessed magazines, the fashion industry, the advertising industry, high society and Hollywood - no area of media fuelled 'body perfection' bullying remains unscathed! A delicious, page-turning novel that highlights press manipulation, and hits back at the 'skinny insanity' currently gripping the western world.
Yours.co.uk
'FOUR STARS'
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- Hot Stars (OK! Magazine Supplement)
FULL REVIEW
Sharon is a size 18. She can't get a man and her skinny best mate only uses her to look good - that is until the world turns on its head and fat is the new thin. Suddenly, Sharon is a superstar and everyone wants a piece of her. But surely there must be a catch? Four Stars
Hot Stars (OK! Magazine Supplement)
'A smart look at the skinny debate that's more funny than preachy.'
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Alex Hemminsley - Elle
FULL REVIEW
A size-18 woman wakes up in a fantasy world where it's desirable to be fat and grotesque to be size zero. A smart look at the skinny debate that's more funny than preachy.
Alex Hemminsley
Elle
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