• Paperback
• Condition: Good
• 343 pages
• Fiction: Young Adult, Coming of Age
• Book 1/2 of the How to Build a Girl duology

My name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen. And I've just decided to kill myself.

I don't really want to die, of course!

I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl.

It's 1990. The Happy Mondays are on Top of the Pops, Thatcher's almost gone and life is so awful here in Wolverhampton. So I will build this new girl out of library books, pop music, eyeliner and feedback! Things do not go smoothly. In fact, I...

Get nervous and talk like Elvis a lot;

Force myself to smoke;

Almost expire through wanting to be kissed;

Become confused as to whether or not I actually have a boyfriend;

Engage in the most inept self-harming session ever;

And drink too, too much, every time.

My life is basically The Bell Jar written by Adrian Mole. But in the end, like all great stories, I did it all for a girl. Me.