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Jemima J.
Jemima J.
Nov 27, 2025 11:37 PM

Author:Jane Green

Jemima J.

Discover the addictive and uplifting story of reinvention, self-discovery and the meaning of true love from the bestselling author of Life Swap and The Friends We Keep

'Inspirational, uplifting, made me laugh and left me feeling very happy' 5***** Reader Review

'Compulsively readable' Sunday Times

'Perfect if you want to feel uplifted . . . So relatable' 5***** Reader Review

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Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight.

Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food.

What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing.

But can Jemima reinvent herself?

And should she?

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'The kind of novel you'll gobble up in a single sitting' Cosmopolitan

'Green writes with acerbic wit about the law of the dating jungle' Sunday Express

Readers ADORE Jemima J:

'Truly uplifting and fun' 5***** Reader Review

'I was utterly engrossed' 5***** Reader Review

'A fantastic book that you can't put down' 5***** Reader Review

'Beautiful and heartwarming' 5***** Reader Review

'Light hearted, warm and funny' 5***** Reader Review

Reviews

His masterpiece

—— The Sunday Times

Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy.

—— Simon Sebag Montefiore , Twitter

Proust, Tolstoy and Balzac are the names most frequently flung around in company with that of Mahfouz...I thought of Galsworthy, reading Sugar Street

—— Spectator

Mahfouz's scope is vast and his concerns are not only still evident today, but crucial

—— The Scotsman

Sugar Street is a marvellous novel, with many messages, open and concealed, for those who will be instructed

—— The Times Literary Supplement

The Cairo Trilogy has made its mark on Anglo-American literary tastes because of its unusual grandeur, a technically "Good Read" - recalling Dickens, Flaubert, Zola, even Galsworthy - which still engages the dynamic society of Egypt in the first half of the century

—— Glasgow Herald

Mahfouz's sequence telescopes a family chronicle into an unparalleled picture of Egypt under the British Protectorate

—— The Times

A penetrating and thoughtful study of Catherine de'Medici

—— Northern Daily Telegraph

'Irrestistably engaging'

—— Kirkus

'Witty and intelligent...just the thing for a lazy summer day'

—— Newsday

Genuine wit and charm

—— Image

Witty novel about life and love after divorce, Hollywood-style.

—— Daily Express

A bitchy and entertaining look at life in La-La Land

—— The Sun

A perfect poolside read

—— New Woman
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