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Big Girl
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
In this heartfelt, incisive novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family.
A chubby little girl with ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City.
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her younger sister, Grace. Though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. So when Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, a deeply upsetting betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point.
Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.
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- Kim
- 10-06-10
Big Girl
Excellent book,would listen to this one again.
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- Victoria Browne
- 15-07-15
A very lovely story
I loved the way the story was narrated and the fluidity of the story line. It is a story that follows a young girl from baby to woman. Her happy times and sadness through out life. If you are like me and like well written books your love this. The narrator has a lovely voice and reads the story and characters parts very well.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Kate
- 26-04-11
FABULOUS
Fantastic and gripping... couldn't turn my ipod off
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- J T.
- 24-01-20
Oh dear.
Can’t finish this audio version of this book. It rabbled on and on. No real story line, just a women complaining of how her parents don’t like her.
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- Karen
- 07-01-19
I’m sure this isn’t written by Danielle Steele
A good easy listening book but as a “big girl” myself it was depressing and it harped on her size. I felt to a point that was too much. I’m sure the writer - convinced not Danielle Steel used this book to work through her issues. I hope it was helpful to her. I wish it hadn’t harped on about size quite so much.
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- Abigail
- 06-10-15
not a fan if this one. The story wasn't very good
not the best story. not my favourite by far. I've read so much better by DS
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