My Mad Fat Diary
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4.5 • 147 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
**My Mad Fat Diary is now a hit comedy series on E4.**
It's 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can't keep away from. This is the hilarious and touching real-life diary she kept during that fateful year - with characters like her evil friend Bethany, Bethany's besotted boyfriend, and the boys from the grammar school up the road (who have code names like Haddock and Battered Sausage).
My Mad Fat Diary evokes a vanished time when Charles and Di are still together, the Berlin wall is up, Kylie is expected to disappear from the charts at any moment and it's £1 for a Snakebite and Black in the Vaults pub. My Mad Fat Diary will appeal to anyone who's lived through the 1980s. But it will also strike a chord with anyone who's ever been a confused, lonely teenager who clashes with their mother, takes themselves VERY seriously and has no idea how hilarious they are.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful
I watched all 3 of the E4 series and I thought the series was incredibly good at showing the many sides of mental illness, the pressures of feeling self confident and having low self esteem. The therapist scenes were therapy for me at home. And the tunes were banging! I have only just recently read the book and found my dear Rae continued to make me laugh out loud, cry with her, shout in glee at her choice of tunes and want to reach into the pages to give her a big hug. Both the diary and the series are like having a wonderful friend who reminds you that you’re not alone. This book is a comfort blanket to be read again and again when you are feeling down. Wonderful.
Awesome
Amazing! It may have taken me a year to read it but it was certainly worth it! I just want to know, how did it end with Haddock?! Did you ever end up marrying him?! NEXT BOOK!
Grate
Grate and relatable. Can't wait to get the next one.