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Hopscotch and Handbags: The Essential Guide to Being a Girl | 
 enlarge | Author: Lucy Mangan
Publisher: Headline Review
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 62059
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0755316479
EAN: 9780755316472
ASIN: 0755316479
Publication Date: August 23, 2007
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 A great book for those of us girls born in the 70s (or men who want to understand women better!) June 24, 2008
Snapdragon (London)
`Hopscotch and Handbags' is a great memoir and exploration about female experience from primary school through to work and motherhood. This could have made it incredibly dull and worthy, but in fact this is an amazingly funny book (although it probably has most resonance for women born in the early to mid seventies.)
The real highlights for me were the parts about friendships in primary school; 24 hours in the life of a co-habiting couple; the danger that you will one day turn into your mother; and first experiences of clothes and make-up. Magan reminisces about the time when you had to save up for a piece of clothing that your mother refused to buy you and saved every scrap of pocket money to buy cheap cosmetics that could only be removed with a sand-blaster (Oh dear, I remember it well!) I too tried to make perfume, in a jam jar, with rose petals and water only to be left with something murky and foul smelling.
Perhaps the most worrying section was the one that comes at the end of the book about indicators that you are now a `woman.' Although it did come as something of a relief to know that there is someone else out there who gets a sense of pride from a well-pegged line of washing. Sad but true!
A brilliant book. Highly recommended.
The Main Disruption February 3, 2008
Mrs. Carlie Lee
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was at a dinner party when someone recommended this book. The hostess loved it so much she abandoned the half-served main-course and ran to fetch her (signed) copy. Within moments she was reading snippets aloud, giggling and gesticulating wildly with a serving spoon. All of the wives collapsed with laughter and the husbands gazed sadly and incomprehensively at the rapidly cooling lasagne.
A book for proper girls, who know the score. Greatly enjoyed.
yay! i'm not alone! October 23, 2007
notblondenotskinny (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I never bother writing reviews because i very rarely come across anything i like enough to write one about, but this book is FANTASTIC. its witty, its charming, its brutal in its honesty, and best of all it made me feel a little less insane in a world where so many women are trying so hard to hide the crazy
 Don't bother October 14, 2007
Alex Davies (Reading)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Lucy Mangan can undoubtedly write....the question is, why is she wasting her time on this pap? And it is pap....the whole thing smacks of something cooked her between her and her publisher to make a bit of pre-Christmas cash. Slight, very slight.
Brilliant! October 2, 2007
Minefrog (Bristol)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's witty, it's hilarious, it's embarrassing. And it's all true!
And it solves the problem of all the 30th birthday presents I need to buy! Thank you Lucy!
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