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Losing It - Helen Lederer (2015)

With her middle-age spread having taken up permanent residency, magazine columnist Millie is offered a lot of money to become the guinea pig for a herbal diet pill campaign. She just has to shed three stone in three months. With her home on the line and a loan shark after her, she desperately needs the money. Millie uses the first payment to visit her daughter Mary, who is undertaking scientific research in Papua New Guinea. Hopefully she can combine some bonding time with a touch of dysentery to help her weight loss mission get off to a flying start. As Millie falls further behind on her goal, she tries a range of different methods - from colonics to a virtual gastric band program. For readers who enjoy cheering on the underdog, with plenty of the farcical humour you'd expect from a comedienne. Some might find the main character too caustic and cynical, however.



British comedienne Helen Lederer makes her debut as a novelist with Losing It, about a woman who needs to lose pounds around her middle to put pounds in her bank account.The summary says: "Millie was at one time quite well known for various TV and radio appearances. However, she now has no money, a best friend with a better sex life than her, a daughter in Papua New Guinea and too much weight in places she really doesn't want it. When she's asked to be the front woman for a new diet pill, she naively believes that all her troubles will be solved. She will have money, the weight will be gone, and maybe she'll get more sex. If only life was really that easy. It doesn't take her long to realise it's going to take more than a diet pill to solve her never-ending woes..." Losing It is out in February 2015.

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