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Mary Brown is funny, gorgeous and bonkers. She’s also about six stone overweight. When she realises she can’t cross her legs, has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, and discovers that even her hands and feet look fat, it’s time to take action. But what action? She’s tried every diet under the sun.
This is the hysterical story of what happens when Mary joins ‘Fat Club’ where she meets a cast of funny characters and one particular man who catches her eye.
The story is laugh-out-loud funny and will resonate with anyone who has dieted, tried to keep up with any sort of exercise programme or spent 10 minutes in a changing room trying to extricate herself from a way-too-small garment that she ambitiously tried on and is now completely stuck in.

Bernice Bloom is the big, new name in comedy writing…this is the first full-length novel after her series of laugh-out-loud mini books.

Purchase from Amazon UK or Amazon US.

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My Review

I chose to read this book after receiving a free copy. All opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased.

Having been overweight all of my life, I can appreciate both the humor in Diary of an Adorable Fat Girl as well as the horror of realizing that she’s in an embarrassing predicament because of her size. Some of Mary’s situations are hilarious but serious issues are brought up as well. Everyone in Mary’s Fat Club already knows that eating is an emotional response but facing the original triggers and having someone they can call when they’re about to overeat helps, just as AA helps an alcoholic. 

I enjoyed Diary of an Adorable Fat Girl. I was a little disappointed in Mary at times, not because of her low self-esteem but because of her sabotaging a good relationship because of that low self-esteem.  She’s so strong in some ways and has a great sense of humor and I was so proud when she made the right choices when eating out. It can be so difficult! Go Mary!

I hope there will be more stories about Mary’s struggles and triumphs.

 

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About the Author

Hello, my name is Bernice Bloom and I am a writer (I write light-hearted rom-com style novels and also work as a magazine journalist and advertising copywriter) and jewellery designer. My recent series of novels is called ‘Adorable Fat Girl’ and it features a heavily overweight woman called Mary Brown. She is bright, funny, friendly and bonkers. She’s also fat. The books blend the comedy of her efforts to lose weight with a more serious backstory about what happened to her in the past that had led to the issues that make her prone to over-eating. I’m fascinated that there are so few overweight heroines in literature. Women can be manipulative, evil, even murderers in fiction, but not fat! Certainly not fat and beautiful with loads of friends! Then along came Mary and she’s developed quite a fan base of people who love the fact that the heroine is large. She gets lots of letters and I have ended up taking her on lots of adventures!

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Giveaway

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