Overview

Rae Earl is about to enter the most important year of her life - her actual bloody final year of school. But how the hell can she concentrate on that when it looks like the love of her life, Haddock, may be about to seriously do it with her? The thing is... is she ready? What if she's actually meant to be with Battered Sausage? And are either of these boys really that interested in her at all? She's certainly not getting any thinner; in fact, she's getting fatter. Every time she thinks of her final exams, she has to have another biscuit. Or five. And it's very difficult to concentrate on anything when her mum's Moroccan boyfriend is singing along to the radio in Arabic...

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'Funnier, sadder and ruder than Adrian Mole, this will delight teenagers past and present' Financial Times You wouldn't catch many people revealing their true teen thoughts. Hurray then for Rae Earl, who dug out her 1989 diary and published it in the raw. Hilarious and gut-wrenchingly familiar In Style Very funny Elle 'Full of 80s nostalgia, this journal will make you laugh out loud' Closer (four stars) 'Very funny - and sad' Heat 'Full of teenage logic, bad poetry and 80s nostalgia, Rae's frank and hilarious trip down memory lane stands out from the current surge of memoirs' The London Paper This show actually is my mad fat diary. I have already pretty much lived this show, for real... Reminds you how rarely you see teenage girls on television doing anything other than looking sexy in short skirts, endlessly texting their friends about parties, or wailing IT'S SO UNFAIR when their parents won't buy them a car. Caitlin Moran for The Times The diaries based on author Rae's real life continue in excellent style Heat

"Funnier, sadder and ruder than Adrian Mole, this will delight teenagers past and present - Financial Times You wouldn't catch many people revealing their true teen thoughts. Hurray then for Rae Earl, who dug out her 1989 diary and published it in the raw. Hilarious and gut-wrenchingly familiar - In Style Very funny - Elle Full of 80s nostalgia, this journal will make you laugh out loud - Closer (four stars) Very funny - and sad - Heat Full of teenage logic, bad poetry and 80s nostalgia, Rae's frank and hilarious trip down memory lane stands out from the current surge of memoirs - The London Paper This show actually is my mad fat diary. I have already pretty much lived this show, for real... Reminds you how rarely you see teenage girls on television doing anything other than looking sexy in short skirts, endlessly texting their friends about parties, or wailing ""IT'S SO UNFAIR"" when their parents won't buy them a car. - Caitlin Moran for The Times Funnier, sadder and ruder than Adrian Mole, this will delight teenagers past and present - Financial Times"

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Rae Earl was born in Lincolnshire in 1971. She went to Hull University and following a brief stint at Parcel Force moved into broadcasting. She now writes full time from her shed in Hobart, Tasmania. The second series of Rae's hit TV drama My Mad Fat Diary is broadcasting on E4 in February 2014 and the second book in her fictional 'Hattie Moore' series is publishing in June 2014.

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