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Lady

My Life as a Bitch

Melvin Burgess author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Andersen Press Ltd

Published:2nd Jul '15

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Honest, original and utterly filthy, Lady: My Life as a Bitch follows Sandra - a seventeen-year-old girl who doesn't run with the pack.

If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch. Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure – pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she’s fed up with all that. She’s been having fun, running wild – some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She’s frightened at first, but she quickly realises there are pleasures she hardly knew existed.If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch. Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure – pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she’s fed up with all that. She’s been having fun, running wild – some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She’s frightened at first, but she quickly realises there are pleasures she hardly knew existed. Is being human worth all the effort?

"Lady succeeds on several levels: it’s both a teenage rite of passage and a satire on the emptiness of modern life" * Big Issue *
"This funny, punchy, well-written, original book asks real questions" * Daily Telegraph *
"[Lady] has confirmed Burgess’ position as the most exciting contemporary UK writer of teenage fiction" * Scotsman *
"Burgess keeps the suspense high to the very last. This seductive volume is as raw and ravenous as its subject" * Publishers Weekly *
"Melvin Burgess is about to trigger an earthquake in the publishing world with his new book Lady" * Guardian *

ISBN: 9781783443031

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 165g

192 pages