My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary
Author(s): Rae Earl
It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep away from. This is the hilarious and touching real-life diary she kept during that fateful year -with characters likeher evil friend Bethany, Bethany's besotted boyfriend, and the boys from the grammar school up the road (who have code names like Haddock and Battered Sausage). My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary" evokes a vanished time when Charles and Di are still together, the Berlin wall is up, Kylie is expected to disappear from the charts at any moment and it's GBP1 for a Snakebite and Black in the Vaults pub. My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary" will appeal to anyone who's lived through the 1980s. But it will also strike a chord with anyone who's ever been a confused, lonely teenager who clashes with their mother, takes themselves VERY seriously and has no idea how hilarious they are.
General Information
- :
- : Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- : Hodder Paperback
- : 0.24
- : 23 August 2007
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Rae Earl
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 352
- : True stories; Social & cultural history; Humour
- : Illustrations
More About The Product
'Funnier, sadder and ruder than Adrian Mole, this will delight teenagers past and present' -- Financial Times 'You wouldn't catch many people revealing their true teen thoughts. Hurray then for Rae Earl, who dug out her 1989 diary and published it in the raw. Hilarious and gut-wrenchingly familiar' -- In Style 'Very funny' -- Elle 'Full of 80s nostalgia, this journal will make you laugh out loud' -- Closer (four stars) 'Very funny - and sad' -- Heat 'Full of teenage logic, bad poetry and 80s nostalgia, Rae's frank and hilarious trip down memory lane stands out from the current surge of memoirs' -- The London Paper
Rae Earl was born in Stamford in Lincolnshire in 1971. She went to Hull University, and following a brief stint at Parcel Force in Peterborough she joined one of Britain's biggest commercial radio groups as a copywriter in 1995. After six years of writing adverts that started with the line 'ATTENTION CARPET BUYERS!' Rae moved to broadcasting and now presents a breakfast show in the East Midlands together with her husband Kevin, for which she has been named British Midlands Radio Presenter of the Year.
