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Jemima Jones is overweight, treated like a slave, and isolated by her flatmates. Despite her passion for food and charming colleague Ben, her life needs to change quickly. Can Jemima reinvent herself and embrace the love she feels?
First publish date: 1998
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Jane Green
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