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Jane Green
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Book Description

6 Aug 1998

Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of Babyville and Straight Talking - explores reinvention and self-discovery in Jemima J.

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight.

Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing.

But can Jemima reinvent herself? And should she?

Jemima J. is a brilliantly funny, honest novel about ugly ducklings and swans, attraction, addiction and the meaning of true love.

'Green writes with acerbic wit about the law of the dating jungle' Sunday Express

'The kind of novel you'll gobble up in a single sitting' Cosmopolitan

'The ultimate makeover novel' Sunday Times

Bestselling author Jane Green has captured the imaginations of readers in the UK and the US with her frank and funny approach to those day-to-day issues that affect women everywhere. Other titles also published by Penguin include The Other Woman, The Love Verb (published as Promises to Keep in the USA), Girl Friday (Dune Road), Life Swap (Swapping Lives), The Patchwork Marriage (Another Piece of My Heart), Spellbound (To Have and to Hold), The Beach House, Second Chance, Mr. Maybe, and Bookends.


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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; Re-issue edition (6 Aug 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0140276904
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140276909
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (209 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Cleverly probes the world of a very smart, very funny, very fat reporter . . .Americans will enjoy this confection and appreciate how Green renders a certain humor-impaired California earnestness about health, happiness, and love."
-"USA Today
""A brilliantly funny novel about something close to every woman's heart -her stomach." -"Woman's Own"

"The kind of novel you'll gobble up at a single sitting."
--"Cosmopolitan"


"From the Trade Paperback edition."

About the Author

Jane Green is a former journalist who gave up her job on the Daily Express to write a real woman's account of being single in the city. That account became Jane's first novel, Straight Talking. A huge success, Straight Talking was followed by ten more bestselling novels: Jemima J, Mr Maybe, Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound, the Other Woman, Life Swap, Second Chance, The Beach House and Girl Friday. Jane lives with her husband and children in Connecticut.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By KAT
Format:Paperback
Journalist Jemima J is overweight - about 7 Stones to be precise, and while on the outside she may come across as self assured and confident, her rolls of fat hide a deeper insecurity. Jemima is in love with Ben Williams, the sex-God of the office, but while he becomes her good friend she knows that the way she looks means he will never be anything more.

After going on a computer course and discovering the delights of the World Wide Web Jemima J is soon on course to a whole new world. Over an internet Chat Site she meets Brad an impossably handsom Californian stud. He seems perfect in everyway and is desperate to meet Jemima. However there is one problem - he is a health freak and owns a Gym. Desperate to give this new relationship a whirl and longing to get over the heartbreak of Ben leaving to become a TV Presenter, Jemima Jones sheds the pounds and with the help of her new found friend Geraldine, transforms herself into JJ and gets set for her new perfect life.

I wont ruin the plot content but Brad turns out be not as perfect as he seems and is hiding a dark secret...however, when Ben Williams comes back on the scene, Jemima realises she is still hopelessly in love. Will her new look finally win his heart?

While this book is a thorougly good read and you do become absorbed in Jemima's world I do find it a tad superficial. It seems to say that you don't have a hope in hell of getting your dream guy unless you are thin. Forget the fact that she is an incredibly nice person no-one notices her because all they see is the fat. This can't be easy for overweight people who read this as it seems to say that the only way for them to be happy is to be thin. For the record, this is not true, I am a size 8 and my prince charming took a wrong turn, got lost and is too stubborn to ask for directions! In a skinny-obsessed world this book seems superficial and a little shallow. However, it is a thoroughly good happy-ending-live-happily-ever-after-with-mr.perfect-dream-come-true kind of book.

All I would say is, as superficial as a "great body = great life" is remember that Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly goes to the bone!
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Irresponsible and appalling 15 July 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The one clear message of this book is that if you are overweight you will have no friends, no boyfriend, a job you hate and no life.

Okay, I'm not fat myself, but I can see that books such as this - and comments such as that by a certain Times journalist who has posted here and who should know better! - do not help women and girls who are overweight. Crash-dieting is a health hazard, and the kind of weight loss described is highly dangerous. But does Jemima get ill as a result? No; she gets beautiful, and suddenly *everyone* notices her and she gets the job she craves as well as the boyfriend she wants.

Sure. And pigs might fly.

What a message - that a woman can only be happy and successful when she has the figure of a Jodie Kidd!

Oh, and as for the 'Internet romance,' Okay, this is a novel and not reality, but even in fiction people should be aware of the dangers in going to meet someone you've only chatted to over the Net. And since Jemima sent a false photo, didn't she think Brad might have as well? I confidently expected him to be some sort of weirdo, and was amazed to find ... that he was a normal guy.

Oh, and didn't anyone else find the narrative style profoundly annoying? Why couldn't she make up her mind whether she wanted to write a normal third-person narrative or a first-person narration from Jemima's point of view? And what did she think she was doing with those irritating second-person sections?

That's enough for me...

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read 29 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
This is a very good read and surprisingly highly motivating as it made me wanto to go out right there and then and join a gym (which I have subsequently done!) It's got a lot of humour in it and I really enjoyed it. The ending is a bit predicatble but who cares - it's a great read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
I just finished reading this book and I am very disapointed. It was not an easy read and i found my self skipping loads of pages because it was boring. Read more
Published 3 days ago by JAD
4.0 out of 5 stars Deserves a second chance!
Jemima J was my very first Jane Green book I read. It instantly made me a fan. The flow of the book and the easy manner in which it reads makes it so inviting. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Pajama Book Girl
3.0 out of 5 stars starts well enough but limps over the line
reasonable idea and concept and started qite well but really loses momentum in the final third and finishes with a bit of a wimper.
Published 1 month ago by hextol
5.0 out of 5 stars All time favourite!
Amazing!

I have read this twice and absolutely love it! It has everything a good girly read needs! A def most read for anyone that enjoys romance!
Published 1 month ago by christie rodman
4.0 out of 5 stars Chick lit at it's best
Great book for a bit of escapism. Highly unrealistic but that's part of its charm. Worth a read curled up with a cuppa.
Published 3 months ago by sheri
1.0 out of 5 stars So that's what I'm missing, extreme dieting!
I saw this book on the top books list on my kindle. I read the sample and although I'm not usually a "chick lit" person, I thought I would give it a try. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Catherine
4.0 out of 5 stars Animal jones
Great piece of work. Keeps you in suspense right up to the end , can't wait for next one
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Published 3 months ago by Mrs S D Manville
5.0 out of 5 stars Jemima J
I loved this book it has a bit of everything. Jemima is a believable character and i enjoyed her story
Published 4 months ago by Karen Sutton
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Read!
I read this book several yearsago and loved it - bought it this Christmas for a friend who has recently discovered Jane Green, I know she will love it too!
Published 5 months ago by Sally J.
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolute rubbish
So Jane Green believes in order to get a boyfriend or career in life you have to be slim. Don't bother reading this load of rubbish. It annoys me to read such drivel.
Published 5 months ago by Jill Clark
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