Bridget Jones's diary, by Helen Fielding
Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could lose 7 lbs, stop smoking and find Inner Poise. Contains adult themes.
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Diving in, by Kate Cann
Coll thinks the boy she sees swimming every Thursday night is completely gorgeous - and then he asks her out. Art is strong and powerful, and he's also quite pushy. Just what is Coll getting into?
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I was a teenage worrier, by Ros Asquith
The diary of a 15-year-old - a brilliantly funny ALPHABET OF TEENAGE WORRY.
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Indigo Blue, by Cathy Cassidy
Indie's mum loves the colour blue. So much so that she named her children Indigo and Misty - shades of blue, special colours, magical colours. Indie loves her mum. But blue isn't always a happy colour - and there's a lot of sad stuff in her mum's life.
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It's a girl thing, by Grace Dent
This novel follows three teenage friends, Ronnie, Claude and Fleur, who are the irrepressible LBD - Les Bambinos Dangereuse. When their headmaster cancels the school's annual summer fete, they decide to replace it with their own music festival.
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Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Contains adult themes.
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Sophie Pitt-Turnbull discovers America, by Dyan Sheldon
Sophie thinks she knows it all. When she goes to the States to spend the summer in Brooklyn with an old friend of her mother's, her idea of the world (as brought up in a middle-class family in Putney) is turned on its head.
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The princess diaries, by Meg Cabot
Mia becomes heir to the Genovian throne - apparently she really is a princess. Mia begins taking princess lessons and has to be followed everywhere by a bodyguard. But if you think she's moving to Genovia, think again!
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The secret dreamworld of a shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
From the outside, it looks as if Rebecca Bloomwood has everything. She's a financial journalist, confident, single and happily living in Fulham. A début novel of love, credit cards and spending sprees - the ultimate retail therapy. Contains adult themes.
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The sisterhood of the travelling pants, by Ann Brashares
From Baja California to Greece, from film-making to football - as Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget endure their first summer apart they are secure in the knowledge that their friendship is constant - and the symbol of it is only a parcel-delivery away.
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