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PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100767905180

ISBN-139780767905183

eBay Product ID (ePID)1851878

Product Key Features

Book TitleJemima J : a Novel about Ugly Ducklings and Swans

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Romance / Contemporary, General, Humorous / General

Publication Year2001

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorJane Green

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-023596

Reviews"Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love." USA Today "A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart her stomach." Woman's Own "The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting." - Cosmopolitan, "Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love." USA Today "A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's hearther stomach."Woman's Own "The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting." -Cosmopolitan, "Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love." - USA Today "A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart - her stomach." - Woman's Own "The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting." -- Cosmopolitan, "Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love." USA Today "A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart her stomach." Woman's Own "The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting." -Cosmopolitan From the Trade Paperback edition.

Edition DescriptionReprint

SynopsisJemima 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 herselfas 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-mailsno small feat. With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is., 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-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-no small feat. With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is.

LC Classification NumberPR6057.R3443 J46