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"How to Build a Girl" is a coming-of-age novel that follows the life of Johanna Morrigan, a unique teenager navigating her way through adolescence in a working-class family in the UK. Struggling with her identity and the pressures of growing up, Johanna reinvents herself as a confident persona named Dolly Wilde. This transformation serves as a means for her to escape her mundane life and explore the world of music journalism.

Like books before them, each of these songs, I know, could in the end prove to be the thing I need: a way out. A place to go. — Caitlin Moran How to Build a...

Yeah. They wake up a couple of times in the night, but, you know, that is the ineffable nature of the young! I said. This woman was bound to be impressed by what an engaged big sister I was. Also, my vocabulary. — Caitlin Moran How to Build a...

Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full - moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny after all... .I feel like I've just flown 600 miles per hour head - on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it's never - ending summer. — Caitlin Moran How to Build a...

The working class do things differently. I can hear it. I can see we are not wrong. We are not just poor people who have not yet evolved into something else - i.e., people with money. We are something else - just as we are. The working classes do it differently. We are the next thing. We power popular culture - just as, before, we powered the Industrial Revolution. The past is theirs, but the future's mine. They're all out of time. — Caitlin Moran How to Build a...

You actually don't exist while you're in your bedroom, I say to the dog, so that she knows this important fact. Teenage girls in bedrooms aren't real. — Caitlin Moran How to Build a...

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