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Title: How to Build a Girl

Author: Caitlin Moran

Narrator: Louise Brealey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

What do you do in your teenage years when you realise what your parents taught you wasnt enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes - and build yourself.

Its 1990.

Johanna Morrigan, 14, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that theres 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, shes smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper. Shes 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 shes built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?

Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease, with a soundtrack by My Bloody Valentine and Happy Mondays. As beautiful as it is funny, How To Build a Girl is a brilliant coming-of-age novel in DMs and ripped tights, that captures perfectly the terror and joy of trying to discover exactly who it is you are going to be.

Please note: This audiobook contains explicit language.

Members Reviews:

How to Build a Girl

How to Build a Girl is a coming of age story with a difference. It's gritty, truthful, filthy, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny!! And sometimes all the same time!

I think this is the book I'll be recommending to all of my friends this year!

Hard listening!

Hard work all through. Strange way to write a book but probably appeal to some people!! Definitely a different mind set to me though!! Listen to a sample before buying is my advice

Quite simply the story for any woman!

One of the funniest, thrilling and most ostentatious stories, made all the better by having Louise Brealey read it to me. The characters came to live with her use of voices and I truly fell in love with Johanna/Dolly. An inspiration in novella.

Fantastic narration of highly entertaining story

A supremely funny, filthy and clever book - and made one hundred per cent moreso by the flawless narration. Great stuff!

Beautifully written and performed.

I love Caitlin's refreshing frankness but having read some of her other work there were moments of déjà vue.

The performance would be hard to top.