The New York Times bestselling author hailed as ''the UK's 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. - - Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease. - - How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes - and build yourself.It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer.
