Normal Girl - Softcover

So much talent, so young a writer! Hard-edged, savage, funny, brilliant. - Fay Weldon Normal Girl is a searing, bitchy, funny novel about priviledge in wretched excess and the accidental nature of grace--a fin de siecle East Coast Less Than Zero from the female point of view. Molly Jong-Fast is a prodigy. Parents everywhere should be horrified by this deeply impressive debut. - Jay McInerney She rides the roller-coaster of her teenage years - Daily Telegraph It is part autobiography, part daughter's revenge and part elaboration of her new-found, old fashioned prescription for living - Philip Delves Broughton, Weekend Telegraph [Molly Jong-Fast] spares no blushes - Observer [Normal Girl] is already poised to be as talked-about as Fear of Flying - Brendan Lemon, Interview Magazine it sparkles with an acerbic wit while providing a wry commentary on fashionable NYC society that holds its own alongside Molly's contemporary literary heroes like Tama Janowitz and Bret Easton Ellis. - The Face a snappy and sassy tale of New York upper-class deprivation in the mould of Bret Easton Ellis - Image Magazine

Miranda is young, rich and famous, frantically filling the void at the centre of her life with a high-voltage cocktail of designer people, designer labels and designer drugs. But Jeff's death makes Miranda think again. After all, this girl doesn't want to be an afterthought before she's 20.