Title: The Lives and Loves of Jesobel Jones
Author: Anna Mainwaring
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publisher: Portal Press
Format: Paperback and E-Book
Published: 25th March 2015
Summary: Jesobel Jones can
bake. In a truly triumphant, appearing-on-TV kind of way. But this means
nothing to the rest of the world, because apparently all that cake mix is
starting to show – in all the wrong places. So when she lands an invite to the
Party of Year by the Boy of Her Dreams, she wonders whether it’s time for a
new, improved Jess. But will life still taste as good?
Anna Mainwaring's
debut is a light-hearted and sometimes poignant take on the pressures that face
teenage girls. It's hard to smile in all those selfies when you don't like the
girl who looks back at you. But which is more important - looking perfect or
being happy?
Author Information
Anna
Mainwaring first read ‘The Lord of the Rings’ when she was seven and she hasn’t
stopped
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Her
debut novel, “The Lives and Loves of Jesobel Jones”, follows Jess through the
joy and pain of being a teenager in the modern world; first love, friendship,
embarrassing families, and asks the big questions in life: how much cake is it
really acceptable to eat?
After
studying English at university, Anna made the foolish decision to work in
corporate finance, not the best career choice for someone who a) is number
dyslexic b) hates anything corporate. After travelling, Anna re-trained as an
English teacher and works in a girls’ school in Cheshire. When not writing,
teaching, or looking after her children, Anna can generally be found walking up
a big hill, looking for inspiration.
Tour Schedule
Monday 6th April Writing From the
Tub
Tuesday 7th April Luna’s
Little Library
Thursday 9th April Fiction
Fascination
Friday 10th April Live to Read. Read to Live.
Monday 13th April Chrissi Reads || Marie’s Journal
Tuesday 14th April An
Awful Lot of Reading
Thursday 16th April Music, Books and
Tea
Friday 17th April The Page Starts Here
Saturday 18th April Snuggling on the
Sofa
Sunday 19th April Tales of Yesterday
**MY REVIEW**
The Lives and Loves of Jesobel Jones is the MOST brilliant book- and DEFINITELY the most realistic one that I've read in ages! Anna Mainwaring has this incredible talent of writing a story- making it seem like they're your friends and you family going through the situation, and then gives you just the right amount of crazy, the right amount of fun and the right amount of love- making this the most PERFECT contemporary ever written!
Okay, I don't even think that that made sense. But Anna's writing and Jesobel's voice struck such a personal chord within me- for I am exactly like Jesobel- overweight with image issues (well, with the exception of the amazing baking- my most accomplished feat in cooking is a simple toast) and the things she faces right down to the father who supports her regardless and the mother who passive aggressively suggests that she's not good enough- and to read something SO alike to well, my life and SO SO perfect that I fear I'm to go into a book hangover very soon.
"That's the invisible rule, isn't it? If you're a teenage girl, you should hate your body, hate food and hate yourself."
"It's like you have to choose between life and beauty.
And to be beautiful, you have to conform.
And I don't wand to conform.
But I do want Matt Paige to kiss me."
5 Golden, glowing stars from me- and if it wasn't already obvious- GO READ THE BOOK!
"It's like you have to choose between life and beauty.
And to be beautiful, you have to conform.
And I don't wand to conform.
But I do want Matt Paige to kiss me."
5 Golden, glowing stars from me- and if it wasn't already obvious- GO READ THE BOOK!
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