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What It Feels Like for a Girl
- Author
- Paris Lees
- Narrator
- Paris Lees
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 27 May 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology of gender, Social classes, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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Thirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' like a poof" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.
It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music' is top of the charts and there's a whole world to explore - and Byron's happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.
Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers.
'Fresh, original, heartbreaking' Reni Eddo-Lodge
'Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic' Pandora Sykes
'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist
© Paris Lees 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Fresh, original, heartbreaking and optimistic. The subtlety of time passing reminds me of Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's writing.
Reni Eddo Lodge
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Paris Lees is the voice of a generation
Paul Flynn
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Brilliant, brutal and bitingly funny, Lees is going to rip your heart out and show you the ugly truth about kids Britain would rather pretend don't exist. There's never been a book like this
Matthew Todd
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Details
- Author
- Paris Lees
- Narrator
- Paris Lees
- Duration
- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 May 2021
- ISBN
- 9780141995687
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Memoirs, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology of gender, Social classes, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIESThirteen-year-old Byron needs to get away, and doesn't care how. Sick of being beaten up by lads for "talkin' like a poof" after school. Sick of dad - the weightlifting, womanising Gaz - and Mam, who pissed off to Turkey like Shirley Valentine. Sick of all the people in Hucknall who shuffle about like the living dead, going on about kitchens they're too skint to do up and marriages they're too scared to leave.It's a new millennium, Madonna's 'Music' is top of the charts and there's a whole world to explore - and Byron's happy to beg, steal and skank onto a rollercoaster ride of hedonism. Life explodes like a rush of ecstasy when Byron escapes into Nottingham's kinetic underworld and discovers the East Midlands' premier podium-dancer-cum-hellraiser, the mesmerising Lady Die. But when the comedown finally kicks in, Byron arrives at a shocking encounter that will change life forever.Bold, poignant and riotously funny, What It Feels Like For a Girl is the unique, hotly-anticipated and addictively-readable debut from one of Britain's most exciting young writers.'Fresh, original, heartbreaking' Reni Eddo-Lodge'Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic' Pandora Sykes'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist© Paris Lees 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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