How to Build a Girl

Author(s): Caitlin Moran

Penguin Spinner Fiction | Feel Good Fiction

Soon to be a major film starring Ladybird's Beanie Feldstein as Johanna Morrigan and Game of Thrones's Alfie Allen as John Kite


The phenomenal Number One Sunday Times Bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback!


My name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself.


I don't really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn't exactly go to plan...


A Number One Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and now Number One in paperback, from Caitlin Moran, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman. (Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club 'Our Shared Shelf')

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The number 1 Sunday Times bestseller from Caitlin Moran, bestselling author of How To Be A Woman...

Shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards: Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2014.

"spirited coming of age novel romps from strength to strength...I'm a Moran fan" -- Lionel Shriver The Times "a Portnoy's Complaint for girls... when I see this book described as "laugh-out-loud funny" I feel affronted; it could make you laugh out loud with one hand tied behind its back, while wanking itself off to fantasies of Satan. Laughing out loud is just the start" -- Zoe Williams The Guardian "This isn't a sleek, slick novel, but it is a rambunctious, raw-edged, silly-profound and deeply relatable guide to what your worst mistakes can teach you, and it has much to offer teenagers both actual and inner" The Independent "Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny" -- Helen Fielding "I have so much love for Caitlin Moran" -- Lena Dunham

CAITLIN MORAN was brought up on a council estate in Wolverhampton where she was home-educated, wore a poncho and had boys throw stones at her whilst calling her 'a bummer'. She published a children's novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16, then became a columnist at The Times at the age of 18 which, yeah, looking back now is kind of weird. At one point she was Columnist, Interviewer and Critic of the Year - so in your face, 'bummer' boys. Her multi-award-winning bestseller How To Be a Woman was published in 25 countries, was a New York Times bestseller and won the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her second book, Moranthology, was a Sunday Times bestseller. With her sister, she co-writes the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves. Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 25 and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as 'a very sexual humanitarian'.

General Fields

  • : 9780091949013
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : 0.244
  • : December 2014
  • : 19.8cm x 12.6cms.
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 352
  • : 823.92
  • : English
  • : 415
  • : Paperback
  • : Caitlin Moran