Jemima J: A Novel

Jane Green

Jun 2000 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

Jemima Jones is overweight--about one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima's only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, Jemima has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl of her dreams. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails. This is just the beginning of Jemima's transformation, though; the process will take her through enormous physical and emotional changes and halfway around the globe.

With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is.

Ratings and reviews

That quite didn't happen to me ,but with my past luck I wouldn't be suprised if it did. -----a total wow,what the hell happened. Excellent book . I even ignored my toddlers pulling on me to read it . -(not for long)I read it once before about 10 years ago , but once again I couldn't put it down and it's better the second round. ----I love this book ...night fan of the author.

Love at the first sight of this eye catching cover. I grabbed, paid it and brought my room. Start to read it, and I love the story. One thing I learned, be healthy, be yourself and feel greatfull.

This book has not aged well. It is strangely sexist for a book with a female protagonist, written by a women, for women. This book also gets the trials of weight loss/being overweight totally wrong

About the author

Jane Green is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 novels, has been published in more than 25 languages, and has over 10 million books in print. Green worked for many years as a journalist with occasional forays into public relations for film, television, and the odd celebrity. She lives in Connecticut with her family.