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Jemima J. a novel about ugly ducklings and swans

Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion fo...

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Main Author: Green, Jane, 1968-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadway Books, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
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Overweight women > Fiction.
Internet > Fiction.
Weight loss > Fiction.
Body image > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Humorous fiction > England.
Humorous fiction > California.
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Summary:Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself<U+2013>as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails<U+2013>no small feat.
Physical Description:373 p.
ISBN:0767905172
9780767905183
Author Notes:"Jane Green" is the pen name for author Jane Green Warburg. She was born in 1968 in London, England. While in her twenties, she worked as a journalist for various national newspapers and magazines in London. At the age of 27, she wrote her first novel Straight Talking, which became a New York Times bestseller. Her books helped launch the phenomenon known as "chick lit", and gave her the nickname of "the queen of chick lit". Her novels include The Patchwork Marriage, Another Piece of My Heart, Promises to Keep, Dune Roard, The Beach House, Family Pictures, Tempting Fate, Summer Secrets. and Jenima J.

Green's title, Falling, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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