Fat Girl

Reviews / Votes

Reading this extraordinary book is like hearing the sobs of a child who can never be comforted. -- Kate Saunders * Sunday Times * The most candid and intimate memoir I have ever read; it is as if you have been sewn up in the author's skin. * Hilary Mantel * Judith Moore writes with unblinking candour about being fat - but that is just the surface. This is a book about the ravages of love. * Betsy Lerner * A book of painful and ferocious eloquence. -- Robert Hass * Poet Laureate of the United States * Fat Girl is powerful, brave, and incredible. Riveting from the first sentence, it is a slap-in-the-face of a book-courageous, raunchy, obsessive, heartbreaking, and darkly funny * Augusten Burroughs * A rare delight. -- Zenga Longmore * Spectator * [A] gruelling and mesmerising memoir ... Judith Moore writes about abjection and alienation like no one else, wrapping the reader up so tightly in her narrative that she leaves you gasping for air. -- Frances Wilson * Sunday Telegraph * Both a harrowing story and a compelling social history, and it has the appropriate effect of one minute making you want to weep and the next of sending you in the direction of the larder. -- Victoria Lane * Telegraph * A superb and fearless piece of writing. -- Alison Rowat * The Herald * A toxic piece of writing ... mature, lyrical, compelling. Moore's unbridled anger draws the reader in, pitching the book into the same voyeuristic territory as a horror story or violent crime novel. * Times * A beautiful, almost dizzyingly attractive read. * Julie Myerson *