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NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES
'Fresh, original, heartbreaking' Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic' Pandora Sykes
'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist
Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for \"talkin' like a poof\" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.
It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music' is top of the charts and there's a whole world to explore - and Byron's happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.
Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers.
Editions of What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780141993089
- EBook
- ISBN 9780141993072
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9780141995687
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NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES
'Fresh, original, heartbreaking' Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic' Pandora Sykes
'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist
Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for \"talkin' like a poof\" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.
It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music' is top of the charts and there's a whole world to explore - and Byron's happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.
Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers.
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What is What It Feels Like for a Girl about?
NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES
'Fresh, original, heartbreaking' Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic' Pandora Sykes
'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist
Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for \"talkin' like a poof\" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.
It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music' is top of the charts and there's a whole world to explore - and Byron's happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.
Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in What It Feels Like for a Girl?
Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Social classes
Where can I read a sample of What It Feels Like for a Girl?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780141993089
Who is/are the Author/s of the book What It Feels Like for a Girl?
Paris Lees
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What It Feels Like for a Girl is available as paperback(ISBN 9780141993089) and ebook(ISBN 9780141993072) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780141995687)
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