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What It Feels Like for a Girl
What It Feels Like for a Girl
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In her debut memoir, What It Feels Like for a Girl, Reni Eddo-Lodge explores the experiences of a thirteen-year-old girl named Byron, who is sick of being beaten up by lads for talking like a poof. Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, Lady Die. However, when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change her life forever. The book is described as bold, poignant, and riotously funny, and is expected to be a classic.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Fresh, Original, Heartbreaking: Reni Eddo-Lodge's What It Feels Like for a Girl is a devastating, hilarious, and unlike anything I have ever read. It is destined to be a classic.
Destined to be a Classic: Pandora Sykes, in her review for Stylist, calls it a "must-read" and praises it as "mesmerising as it is poignant."
Stylist's Spring Must-Read Books to Feel Empowered: The Bookseller has included What It Feels Like for a Girl in its list of "Editor's Choice" books for May 2021, highlighting its uniqueness and brilliance.
What It Feels Like for a Girl Says It Like It Is: The Evening Standard praises the book for its honesty and portrayal of the experiences of a thirteen-year-old girl, Byron, who is fed up with being beaten up and discriminated against for her gender identity.
Sick of Being Beaten Up: Byron is sick of being beaten up by lads for talking like a "poof" after school. He is also fed up with his father, Gaz, who is a weightlifting, womanizing, and irresponsible man, and his mother, Mam, who has left for Turkey, like Shirley Valentine.
Sick of the Living Dead: Byron is tired of the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they are too skint to do up and marriages they are too scared to leave.
A New Millennium: It is the new millennium, and Madonna's Music is at the top of the charts. Byron is eager to explore the world and is happy to beg, steal, and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism.
Life Explodes Like Ecstasy: When Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerizing Lady Die, his life explodes like a rush of ecstasy.
But the Comedown Kicks In: However, as the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change his life forever.
Bold, Poignant, and Riotously Funny: What It Feels Like for a Girl is a unique, hotly-anticipated, and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers. It is bold, poignant, and riotously funny, tackling important issues with humor and honesty.
Conclusion: If you are looking for a fresh, original, and heartbreaking memoir that will leave you laughing and crying, then What It Feels Like for a Girl is a must-read. Reni Eddo-Lodge's debut is a testament to her talent and her ability to capture the experiences of a young girl in a way that is both relatable and powerful.
Weight: 200g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141993089
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