by Julia Bell
‘Exceptional – a superb portrayal of three generations of women for whom food is a problem’ Times Educational Supplement
‘Perceptive and disturbing’ Bookseller
Julia Bell is a writer and teacher and her novels have been published in the UK and US and translated into many foreign languages. She is also the co-editor of the bestselling The Creative Writing Coursebook, which she wrote and compiled while teaching at UEA. She is an alumni of the UEA Creative Writing MA and is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, where she runs a successful MA programme. She also writes poetry and short stories and is the founder and director of the Writers’ Hub website and the annual anthology The Mechanics’ Institute Review.
Books by Julia Bell
The Dark Light
Dirty Work
Massive
First published 2015 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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Table of Contents
Title page
Epigraph page
Contents
ONE: ALEX
TWO: REBEKAH
THREE: ALEX
FOUR: REBEKAH
FIVE: ALEX
SIX: REBEKAH
SEVEN: REBEKAH
EIGHT: ALEX
NINE: REBEKAH
TEN: REBEKAH
ELEVEN: ALEX
TWELVE: REBEKAH
THIRTEEN: REBEKAH
FOURTEEN: ALEX
FIFTEEN: REBEKAH
SIXTEEN: REBEKAH
SEVENTEEN: ALEX
EIGHTEEN: REBEKAH
NINETEEN: REBEKAH
TWENTY: ALEX
TWENTY-ONE: REBEKAH
TWENTY-TWO: REBEKAH
TWENTY-THREE: REBEKAH
TWENTY-FOUR: REBEKAH
TWENTY-FIVE: REBEKAH
TWENTY-SIX: REBEKAH
TWENTY-SEVEN: REBEKAH
TWENTY-EIGHT: ALEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MASSIVE
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