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Before the woman came the girl - Caitlin Moran's hilarious debut novel, inspired by her own childhood and written when she was just fifteen years old.
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"They don't seem to understand, don't seem to grasp that we are not just ordinary children. We Are Gonks, a proud and noble tribe. We have our own rules, our own honour, our own song that no-one can remember the words to. They can't boss us around like that"
Fifteen-year-old Morag Narmo really doesn't want to go to school any more. She and her siblings would rather feed their heads into the waste-disposal than "do the academical" . So they are all stunned when their parents whisk them out of school and embark on a home-schooling experiment. But with five children, two unruly pets and some extremely eccentric attitudes, the educational experiment soon descends into chaos...
Witty, razor-sharp and laugh-out-loud funny, The Chronicles of Narmo shows us how before Caitlin Moran knew How to be a Woman, she had to find out How to be A Girl.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a brilliant first novel by a home-educated teenager, combining an unusual tendency towards fantasy with a hilarious but very down-to-earth description of family life in a large homeschooling family. Particularly impressive is her rendering of two-year-old Poppy, given how notoriously difficult toddlers are to convey convincingly in print - Caitlin Moran's ear for dialogue is uncanny. We have just taken our children out of school and Caitlin is a shining example of what not going to school can achieve. Is it too late to hope for a sequel?
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i first read this when i was 9...i've recently re-read it at 24 and i still think it is knock-your-socks-off brilliant!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Currently this book has four reviews. Two of them are five stars - impressive for a book written when the author was fifteen years old. The others are one star - one because of complaints about the price before it was reissued, the other a short rant about Caitlin's award-winning journalism by someone who presumably hasn't read the book. (One should not write reviews of books without having read the book, oh no.) This seems very unfair.
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How much!!!
Ist outing by one of our great talents and a great iconoclast. Her lateset book How to be a Woman is a laugh out loud page turner and clearly the reason for these rediculous prices... Read more
Published 11 months ago by lucifer Pip
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At best this book belongs in the bin, pure unadulterated rubbish. Caitlin Moran, would be more suitable working for The Sun. Her approach to journalism is tacky.
Published on 21 Feb 2009 by dave jones
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