Lady
My Life as a Bitch
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Andersen Press
Age 12+
Personal & Social Issues: Sexuality & Relationships
If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch.
Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure – pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she’s fed up with all that. She’s been having fun, running wild – some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She’s frightened at first, but she quickly realises there are pleasures she hardly knew existed. Is being human worth all the effort?
Creators
Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature, having won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for his acclaimed novel Junk.
Reviews
Lady succeeds on several levels: it’s both a teenage rite of passage and a satire on the emptiness of modern life
Big Issue
This funny, punchy, well-written, original book asks real questions
Daily Telegraph
[Lady] has confirmed Burgess’ position as the most exciting contemporary UK writer of teenage fiction
Scotsman
Burgess keeps the suspense high to the very last. This seductive volume is as raw and ravenous as its subject
Publishers Weekly
Melvin Burgess is about to trigger an earthquake in the publishing world with his new book Lady
Guardian
Uproariously funny and nutty. Burgess capture[s] the experience of adolescence with absolute and unflinching honesty.
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