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|title=The Duff: The designated ugly fat friend

|sort=Duff: The designated ugly fat friend

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=352

|publisher=Hodder

|date=April 2012

|isbn=1444903500

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As with many light romances, it's all a bit heavy-handed. Readers won't find a single surprise in the Duff. Every tiny aspect of the plot is finished with perfect neatness. Even so, the book is a pleasure to read - there's some great dialogue, the emotional landscape is comfortingly familiar and the whole thing is genuinely good-hearted without being saccharine. This isn't a subtle or challenging read, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

You might also enjoy [[Sea Change by Kate Cann]], a fabulous mix of stunning scenery, scrumptious food and irresistible bad boys, or [[Good Girls by Laura Ruby]] - one moment of indiscretion threatens to ruin Audrey's final year of school, but as she struggles through, she realises that life does go on and that she can survive the unthinkable.

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