The Mrs Marridge Project - Hardcover

Fisk, Pauline

3.14

29 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571226876 ISBN 13: 9780571226870

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2005

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Half way through the funeral of her sister's best friend, 14-year-old Elin suddenly has her BIG IDEA. She doesn't want to go to school and sit pointless exams. She doesn't want to become the career woman her mother has dreamed of. Life's too short to waste on other people's ambitions. Elin wants to get married!

So starts Elin's quest to be married by the time she's 16. She has two years to work towards her goal but there is so much she needs to know - from how to find Mr Right to understanding plumbing and DIY. Transformed from an A-grade schoolgirl to a top-notch investigator, Elin embarks on the secret 'Mrs Marridge Project' using her GCSEs as a model of study.

But as she works through her Research (men, childcare, mortgages), Course Work (essays including 'Why Get Married?'), Field Studies (her relations) and Mocks (eloping with Melvin), Elin discovers much, much more than she bargained for . . .

Acutely observed and filled with sharp wit, this is a stunningly original and controversial novel about self-discovery and the freedom of choice - even if that choice is an unfashionable one.

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Full of wild ambition, fearlessness and terrible mistakes, The Mrs Marridge Project is a funny, sassy and controversial novel about self-discovery and freedom of choice.

Synopsis:

According to Mum, it was only brainless films stars who got married these days. It certainly wasn't something to be considered before a woman hit her thirties, and even then it was a pretty risky idea. Half way through a school-friend's funeral, fourteen-year-old Elin has an epiphany. Life's too short to waste on school - she wants to get married! Using her GCSE syllabus as a model, Elin embarks on a covert operation to be married by the time she's sixteen - a quest that will take her from the Arctic Circle to the wilds of Southern Ireland. As she researches sex, ways of becoming a 'Woman of Maturity' and how to analyse men using Microsoft Excel, she discovers that transforming from A-grade student into A-grade wife is tough - particularly when everyone thinks she's going mad. But Elin's not the sort of girl to be put off - even when the guy she picks up on the Internet turns out to be anything but Mr Right...Full of wild ambition, fearlessness and terrible mistakes, "The Mrs Marridge Project" is a funny, sassy and controversial novel about self-discovery and freedom of choice.

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