'Heart-warming and hilarious, this is a book you need on your shelves in these bleak times.' Irish Times
Perfect for fans of Sex Education and Derry Girls.
Alex is a rebel with a purple fauxhawk and biker boots.
St Mary's Catholic School is the strict boarding school where she's currently trapped.
Despite trying everything she can to get expelled, she's still stuck with the nuns, the prudish attitude and the sexism. So Alex decides to take matters into her own hands. She's going to stage the school's first ever production of The Vagina Monologues . . .
Trouble is, no one else at St Mary's can even bear to say the word 'vagina' out loud!
A riotously funny novel about the importance of friendship and finding your voice.
Flynn Meaney is the author of The Boy Recession and Bloodthirsty. She studied marketing and French at the University of Notre Dame, where she barely survived the terrifying array of priests and nuns, campus ghosts, and bone-crushing athletes who inspired Bad Habits. Since completing a very practical MFA in Poetry, she works for a French company and travels often between New York (when she's in the mood for bagels) and Paris (when she's in the mood for croissants).
Title: Bad Habits
Author: Meaney, Flynn
ISBN: 9780241407196
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Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publication Date: 2021-02-11
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.2401 kg
Bad Habits is an absolute joy of a read, carefully balancing comedy ( I'm a feminist! I place bets on women's basketball games. ) with a nuanced take on female friendships and being a teenage girl judged unfavourably by nuns, priests, peers and the world at large. Heart-warming and hilarious, this is a book you need on your shelves in these bleak times. * Irish Times *
This snarky feminist treat is properly laugh-out-loud funny -- The Bookseller
Funny, fierce and feminist, Bad Habits is full of big characters, big heart, and even bigger laughs. Flynn Meaney has somehow packed laughs into every line while still taking on everything from priests to the patriarchy. I loved it -- Beth Garrod
