Perfect 10

Everywhere there are big girls and big women. Their strategies for survival can be inspired, funny or desperate but survive they do. In these stories their inventiveness is celebrated, their sadness acknowledged and a challenge thrown out to each of us to examine our tendency to judge by appearances.There's Monica, fond of sex and food, Carol who finds her own special way to self-esteem and Veronica who sheds more than weight when she loses four stones. There's Trish and Jeannie, both in school uniform for very different reasons and Sandy, a child ashamed of her fat mother, convinced that she is fated to become a replica.Vivien Jones deftly portrays lives that tend to be overlooked, encouraging us to look beyond the obvious.