- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Avon (Feb 8 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061173088
- ISBN-13: 978-0061173080
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.6 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,461,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In this smart, endearing third outing from London-based Kean, witty and knowing 28-year-old Sunny Weston lives in a London suburb, where she runs a home-based Internet business selling sex toys. Sick of being overweight and in unrequited love with the unattainable Adrian, Sunny loses 98 pounds the hard way-a strict diet and exercise. But now that she can have Adrian, she no longer wants him. Her navel gazing, however, is soon interrupted when a young boy is kidnapped before her eyes from a Starbucks. With her newly athletic body, Sunny is able to chase down the kidnapper, and, with the help of another bystander, Cagney, return the boy to his panicked mother. This event sets in motion the process of coming to terms with her notions of the perfect body and the perfect man. Kean follows Sunny as her life returns to normal, which includes hanging out with friends Anna and Lisa, and seeing her therapist, with whom she questions her relationships with food, her body and men. Finally, Sunny must find her own terms for happiness. Well-written and engrossing, this novel may inspire and entertain those who are tired of the hunger for love, or just tired of hunger.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Cagney and Sunny are both unhappy people, inescapably thrust together time and again as a result of their one selfless action in rescuing a small boy from a would-be kidnapper, and inexplicably repelled by and attracted to one other. Cagney, world-weary and cynical after three failed marriages, makes his living investigating cheating women. Sunny, who runs her own Internet sex-toy business, always viewed her excess weight as the reason she never dated, but she has recently lost 98 pounds and is frantically seeking love, although she's not quite sure she'll recognize it when she finds it. Kean's introspective novel of self-discovery and personal growth is set in the present-day London enclave of Kew and enhanced by the dual points of view she affects. Both Cagney and Sunny are engaged in desperate attempts not only to make sense of the random cruelties perpetrated by the lovely and sought-after who prey on those less fortunate but also to grasp happiness when it steps in front of them. Lynne Welch
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3.2 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Always takes the easy way out..., Feb 14 2010
By A. Callis "anthropologist and geek girl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste The Same (Paperback)
I feel like this author resorted to heavy handed stereotyping throughout this book. The gay "new best friend" character was a flaming, Whitney Houston loving, hand-flailing mockery of homosexuality. The super-macho male character was an over the top misogynist with a drinking problem, a typically tragic past involving multiple wives, and a framed quote on his desk reading "love is just the illusion that one woman differs from another." Our female protagonist supposedly learns that being thin isn't the answer, and yet spends the entire book judging other women's bodies, and only finds happiness once she's thin, cute, and able to wander around in short dresses and slouchy boots. I wasn't a fan.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fun Read, April 28 2007
By missmel "mel" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste The Same (Paperback)
I found this book to be a fun and interesting read. I can relate to how Sunny feels after losing a large amount of weight and not being sure of who she is anymore. A good book for someone who has weight issues.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
interesting inspirational tale, Feb 24 2007
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste The Same (Paperback)
Sunny Weston has believed forever that her weight correlates to her happiness. Now that she has lost ninety-eight pounds, she wonders why she remains unhappy. She ponders if it is the skin now hanging loose, that she transformed her addiction to food into an addiction to lose weight, or that she finally has the attention of her long time unrequited love Adrian though he is engaged to someone else. Her friends suddenly detest her leading Sunny to think they are jealous, but also feeling alone.
Sipping coffee, Sunny hears a woman screaming hysterically. A man has abducted six years old Dougal. Sunny has finally found some good with the weight gone as she runs down the culprit and the rescues the child. Cagney helps her contain the snatcher. They meet at the police station and are attracted to one another. However, she assumes a hunk like Cagney would never have given her a first look a century of weight ago. Still she feels she should still love Adrian while Cagney makes her feel like a strong woman to admire.
This is an interesting inspirational tale that stars a woman who has always believed her weight equates to happiness until she begins to realize there is more to a person that what a scale says. Sunny begins to truly change when she realizes losing the weight helped her run down the pedophile but that it is she mentally needing to change if she is to prevent her "psychological weight" from returning all she lost. Though the romantic subplot is too easy fixed, the key to this fine character study is that the heroine learns that to find inner contentment beyond the personal appearance of THE PERFECT FIT jeans is a bodacious lofty goal worth pursuing.
Harriet Klausner
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