The heartwarming new novel from the sparkling Laura Dockrill, introducing Bluebelle, and her moving, hilarious take on food, body image and how we look after ourselves and others.
It’s a food diary. I have to tell the truth. That’s the point.
Bluebelle, aka BB, aka Big Bones — is a sixteen-year-old girl encouraged to tackle her weight even though she’s perfectly happy, thank you, and getting on with her life and in love with food.
Then a tragedy in the family forces BB to find a new relationship with her body and herself. . .
Tuck in for best mates, belly laughs, boys and the best Bakewell tart.
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Love for BIG BONES
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Big Bones is the
book I wish I’d had as a teenager and Bluebelle is a
friend I wish I had today . Laura has written
a beautiful love letter to some of the most important things in life:
friends ,
family and
food .’ Linsdey Kelk
‘Stuffed with lashings of
laugh-out-loud loveliness (just wait until you read about Bum Tills…),
relatable real-life truths and love in all its complicated, dizzying forms (food-love, friend-love, sisterly-love, boy-love, self-love), this is, quite simply,
the best YA book about self-esteem and body image I’ve ever read ‘ Lovereading
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Laura Dockrill is a performance poet and novelist whose inventive and vibrant approach to life is reflected in the vividly imagined worlds she creates. She is author of the Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel Lorali, as well as Big Bones, and for younger readers The Dream House and Butterfly Brain. Laura has appeared on Blue Peter and CBeebies and is a frequent poet performer at festivals such as Glastonbury, Hay, Edinburgh and Latitude. Laura lives in London with her husband and young son. You can follow her on Twitter @Laura Dockrill