Size Matters: a witty and warm-hearted comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley

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Judy Astley

Size Matters

a witty and warm-hearted comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley

Judy Astley

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English

Black Swan
15 April 2004

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Does losing weight make you a happier person?

Fans of Carole Matthews, Jenny Colgan, Lucy Diamond and Milly Johnson will love this uplifting and upbeat comic novel from bestselling author Judy Astley.

The perfect dose of escapism!

'As irresistible as triple choc fudge cake - with extra cream' -- Mail on Sunday 'A witty take on a modern dilemma' -- Woman and Home 'You'll love this funny novel' -- Sun 'Real wit...

The story is so entertaining' -- Scottish Daily Record 'A refreshingly good read' --
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Jay has always envied her cousin Delphine. While Jay was brought up in a large, noisy and chaotic family, Delphine was indulged, perfectly dressed with a co-ordinated bedroom, an immaculate wardrobe, dancing lessons and monogrammed silver-backed hairbrushes.

Now Jay lives happily with her architect husband and their three teenage children, running a successful cleaning company and trying to keep some kind of order on her disorderly household, while Delphine has long since disappeared to Australia with her second husband.

But Jay does sometimes wonder whether she should be more like her cousin - utterly well-organised and with a seemingly perfect body.

So Jay decides to diet. But what should it be?

She tries a range, with a variety of successes and failures.

But then Delphine reappears, with a third husband in prospect and the same old air of apparently effortless superiority. But Jay never considers that perhaps Delphine is the envious one...

By: Judy Astley
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 189g
ISBN: 9780552771856
ISBN 10: 0552771856
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 April 2004
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Judy Astley was frequently told off for day-dreaming at her drearily traditional school but has found it to be the ideal training for becoming a writer. There were several false-starts to her career- secretary at an all-male Oxford college (sacked for undisclosable reasons), at an airline (decided, after a crash and a hijacking, that she was safer elsewhere) and as a dress designer (quit before anyone noticed she was adapting Vogue patterns). She spent some years as a parent and as a painter before sensing that the day was approaching when she'd have to go out and get a Proper Job. With a nagging certainty that she was temperamentally unemployable, and desperate to avoid office coffee, having to wear tights every day and missing out on sunny days on Cornish beaches with her daughters, she wrote her first novel, Just for the Summer. She has now had eleven novels published by Black Swan.

Reviews for Size Matters: a witty and warm-hearted comedy from bestselling author Judy Astley

A funny, light-hearted English novel about cousinly rivalry and the modern obsession with thinness and diets. Jay successfully runs her own company, has been happily married for over 20 years and has three rather normal teenagers. All in all, hers is a good life but when her dreadfully perfect cousin Delphine announces her return from Australia old insecurities and childhood envy resurface. One reason for Jay's inferiority complex is that Delphine is size ten while childbearing and age has added some pounds to Jay. Her solution is, therefore, to try every diet there is before she has to face up to her immaculate cousin. But does the holy grail of thinness really bring perfect happiness? Popular author Judy Astley is a keen observer of human foibles and has an engaging style. Size Matters may not be riveting or deep, but the frothy story is still warm and sensitive. A good holiday read. (Kirkus UK)