Herald Sun:
‘Pardon the pun, but Conversations
with the Fat Girl is far from lightweight. Its message about self image and the
power of attitude in making positive change is delivered in a snappy fashion.
In a word: genuine.’”
"Engaging and poignant and heartbreakingly real,
Liza Palmer's tale of best friends, true love and just what size happily ever
after wears is a winning conversation."
--Jennifer Weiner, best-selling author
of GOOD IN BED, IN HER SHOES, and LITTLE EARTHQUAKES
Liza Palmer’s first novel
has all the qualities of the ideal best friend: it is reflective yet riotous,
sardonic yet compassionate. This is the story about two best friends, boundary
issues and the unraveling of a shared history. Palmer puts her finger delicately,
yet forcefully, on the crucial moment in every failing friendship, the one where
we must choose either to untangle and extricate ourselves or become erased by
our own compliance. An accomplished and wonderful debut.
-Amanda Stern
(author of The Long Haul)
“This is the one you’ve been waiting for. CONVERSATIONS
WITH THE FAT GIRL is smart, funny, and heartbreakingly honest. I couldn’t put
it down. Liza Palmer infuses her novel with humor, candor, and lots of heart.
This is one conversation I never wanted to end!”
-Johanna Edwards, National
Best-selling Author of THE NEXT BIG THING
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FAT GIRL is
a wry, dry, and ultimately winning novel featuring a saucy heroine to whom all
girls (fat and thin) will relate: Maggie starts out looking for excuses, but ends
up finding herself.
-Wendy Shanker THE FAT GIRL'S GUIDE TO LIFE Paperback
in stores March 2005
"I got completely wrapped up in Conversations with the
Fat Girl...it was touching, funny, and oh, so human. Every character is quirky
and well drawn. It's a conversation I felt lucky to be part of!"
-Caren
Lissner, author of Carrie Pilby
- Conversations was a Target Break Out Book – and I got the jaunty title
of Breakout author
- Conversations went to Number 1 on the Fiction
Heatseekers List in UK – the week before it debuted on April 24, 2006
- Conversations is at #23 on the London Times Bestseller Lists - 04.29.06
