Material Girl (50 page)

MATERIAL GIRL

Louise Kean is a top consultant for the film industry and the author of three other novels, including
The Perfect 10
, rights to which have been sold in the United States.
The Perfect 10
was inspired by Louise’s real-life experience of losing half her body weight – going from size 24 to size 12 in a year. As a result of the huge publicity the book received, Louise is now in great demand as a freelance writer and pundit on the modern woman’s experience. She is 31 and lives in Richmond and isn’t ‘taken’ – for now at least.

‘Beauty is the hardest drug of all.’
Bob Colacello

‘Death is one moment and life is so many of them.’
Tennessee Williams,
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Toasting Eros
Boyfriend in a Dress
The Perfect 10

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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A Paperback Original 2006

FIRST EDITION

Copyright © Louise Kean 2006

Louise Kean asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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