A 14-year-old misfit from the backwaters of England re-invents herself as a bitchy critic in the pages of a national music magazine: Johanna Morrigan, AKA Dolly Wilde, won me over completely. I listened to the Harper audio production of Caitlin Moran's
How to Build a Girl, and now I'm sad. Because I miss Johanna. She is smart and funny and I miss her very much.
Voice narrator Louise Brealey perfectly conveys Johanna's sassy bravado, her lady sex adventurer exterior... and her interior qualms. This is a poignant, wonderful, coming of age tale.
Readalikes:
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (Heather O'Neill);
A Complicated Kindness (Miriam Toews); and
This Song Will Save Your Life (Leila Sales).
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