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Caitlin Moran: How to Build a Girl

What ​do you do in your teenage years when you realise what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes – and build yourself.

It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde – fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer! She will save her poverty stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer – like Jo in Little Women, or the Brontes – but without the dying young bit.

By 16, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She's writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all the kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.

But what happens when Johanna realises she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters and a head full… (tovább)

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Ebury, London, 2014
352 oldal · ISBN: 9780091949006
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Ebury, London, 2014
352 oldal · ASIN: B00ITVYYKE

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He smokes, and looks up at the sky. 'One day, we'll all be kings,' he says.

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The more scared children are, the tighter they hug you.

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Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack of connections, cannot stop you doing.

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She has no idea of how much bravery and nobleness it takes to present my constantly cheerful persona to the word.

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