The Perfect Fit: Fat-Free Dreams Just Don't Taste The Same [Paperback]

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.
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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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“Warm, witty, wise – it’s a PERFECT read.” (Anita Notaro, author of THE WWW CLUB )

“Kean’s introspective novel of self-discovery and personal growth is...enhanced by the dual points of view she affects.” (Booklist )

“Brilliantly observed . . . a must-read.” (Heat, praise for Louise Kean )

“Insightful and laugh-out-loud funny but also serious and sad. An unmissable page-turner.” (New Woman, praise for Louise Kean )

“Must read.” (The Sun, Praise for Louise Kean )

“Intelligent and thought-provoking.” (Company, Praise for Louise Kean )

“Witty.” (Grazia, Praise for THE PERFECT FIT )

“If you’ve ever thought that happiness came with a smaller dress size, this is definitely the book for you.” (New Woman, Praise for THE PERFECT FIT )

“Entertaining.” (Closer, Praise for THE PERFECT FIT )

“A brilliant tale… Witty and wise.” (B Magazine, Praise for Louise Kean )

“The perfect novel for people who think life will be perfect ‘when’… (Karyn Bosnak, author of SAVE KARYN and 20 TIMES A LADY )

“Well-written and engrossing...” (Publishers Weekly Annex )

“Kean’s understanding...is quite touching, and we do end up rooting for this odd pair of underdogs...” (BookPage )

Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill—and a million miles from the nearest brownie—she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing for years.

But being a perfect size doesn't necessarily equal a perfect life. Suddenly Sunny's best friends are all bitter and jealous. She's become a stranger in her own body. And though her longtime work crush, Adrian, is finally her boyfriend, she's totally confused now that charming, daringly dapper Cagney has appeared on the scene. Worst of all, she's worried that the recipe for a happy life might not be low-calorie after all.

Maybe it's time for Sunny to discover that the true secret to happiness isn't constantly feeling hollow.

London-based femme fatale Louise Kean used her own recent weight loss as inspiration for The Perfect Fit. She is a producer for the film industry in Soho, United Kingdom, and she is now working on her fourth novel.