How to Build a Girl: A Novel: Library Edition

The New York Times bestselling author hailed as the UKs answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one Marie Claire makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize 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, fourteen, 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 Bröntes—but without the dying young bit.