My Mad Fat Diary

No, immediately, go on YouTube and watch all six episodes of E4’s brilliant adaption of Rae Earl’s “My Mad Fat Teenage Diary” (Goodreads | Amazon UK) which was summarized on Wikipedia as “a collection of the diaries she wrote as a teenager in the late 1980s, describing the tribulations of being a boy-mad, overweight Morrissey fan living in a council house with her mother and the mother’s Moroccan boyfriend in Stamford, Lincolnshire.” Right?!

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