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XXL-Leseprobe: All About a Girl

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Vorableseprobe zum Roman von Caitlin Moran, der am 8. September 2015 erscheint

England 1990. Die Happy Mondays sind in den "Top of the Pops", Margaret Thatchers Regierungszeit neigt sich dem Ende zu, und das Land ächzt unter der wie soll man bloß in einer Sozialsiedlung in Wolverhampton inmitten einer chaotischen Familie erwachsen werden – mit einem Vater, der seit zwanzig Jahren von einer Karriere als Rockstar träumt und einer Mutter, die, obwohl sie schon drei Kinder hat, eine erneute Schwangerschaft bis zum Geburtstermin als Magenverstimmung deutet? Reicht Johanna Morrigans Trickkiste aus schwarzem Eyeliner, Doc Martens, derben Sprüchen, einem wilden Partystil und einem immensen Wissen über angesagte Popmusik aus, um sich neu zu erfinden, endlich Sex zu haben und die Familie aus der Misere zu retten?

Ein intelligenter, sprühend witziger Roman über das Erwachsenwerden, trügerische Rollenbilder und das Glück, ein Kind der Neunzigerjahre zu sein.

384 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2015

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Caitlin Moran

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Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly, Melody Maker, and at eighteen briefly presented the pop show 'Naked City' on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on The Times – both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column 'Celebrity Watch' – winning the British Press Awards' Columnist of The Year award in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011. The eldest of eight children, home-educated in a council house in Wolverhampton, Caitlin read lots of books about feminism – mainly in an attempt to be able to prove to her brother, Eddie, that she was scientifically better than him. Caitlin isn't really her name. She was christened 'Catherine'. But she saw 'Caitlin' in a Jilly Cooper novel when she was 13 and thought it looked exciting. That's why she pronounces it incorrectly: 'Catlin'. It causes trouble for everyone.

(from http://www.caitlinmoran.co.uk/index.p...)

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