Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans - Softcover

Green, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307888533 ISBN 13: 9780307888532

Publisher: Broadway Books, 2011

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.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this title

Review:

" Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love."
- "USA Today
"" A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart - her stomach." - "Woman's Own"
" The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting."
-- "Cosmopolitan"

"Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love."
"USA Today
""A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart her stomach." "Woman's Own"
"The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting."
"Cosmopolitan""

"Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love."
-USA Today
"A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart -her stomach." -Woman's Own

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

From the Back Cover:

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, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing.

But can Jemima reinvent herself? And should she?

A brilliantly funny, honest novel about ugly ducklings and swans, attraction, addiction and the meaning of true love.

'Green writes with acerbic wit about the law of the dating jungle' Sunday Express

'The kind of novel you'll gobble up in a single sitting' Cosmopolitan

'The ultimate makeover novel' Sunday Times

'Brilliantly funny' Woman's Own

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0307888533
• ISBN 13: 9780307888532
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416