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|title=My So-called Life: The Tragically Normal Diary of Rachel Riley

|author=Joanna Nadin

|date=June 2007

|isbn=978-0192755261

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Rachel is bored. There's just not enough excitement in her life. She has not been blessed with an alcoholic mum or an absent dad and her boring, ordinary lifestyle is right in the middle of the spectrum, a long way from both foster-care-chic and the nouveau-riche lavish lifestyle of the dubious people next door. Her best friend may have a sexpert mum and a gynaecologist dad, but poor Rachel's parents do nothing so glamorous. She lives in a nice house on a nice street and goes to a nice school where she has nice friends. Eugh. Why can't her life be more like a soap opera, or at the very least like a [[Jacqueline Wilson]] book?