Low Fat

Home Grrrls #2

by Jenny Pausacker

Bryony's been in love with her best friend's big brother for years but she's never made a move. For one thing, his last girlfriend was the full blonde cliche, and Bryony is pretty, intelligent, funny and - fat.

'Not fat. That's a really ugly word.'
'No uglier than "cat" or "hat" or "chat". It only sounds ugly because of the way people use it.'

Skinny people love telling you it doesn't matter. Then next minute they're going on about this fabulous diet that really works.
Despite all the stereotypes Bryony's on a campaign to get Matt. But if even her family and friends see to have it in for her, the biggest problem of all is Bryony herself!

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Jenny Pausacker is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. Her young adult novel, What Are Ya? won the Angus and Robertson Junior Writers Fellowship and was short-listed for two State awards. Other short stories have been published in the anthologies, Landmarks, The Blue Dress and Bittersweet. The short story 'About Zan' was dedicated to Helen and published in 'Family: A Collection of Short Stories'.