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Need help with a book title please... (got it thanks!!)

Postby Qbar » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:05 am

Trying to figure out the name of this book ...

probably released mid 80's - fairly thick book

young woman, rich family, very much overweight, goes to Paris and stays at this house (a pension?) with a woman and her 2 daughters, who don't think very highly of her. Due to the way they eat, and her inability to speak French and go out and buy her own food, she loses a lot of weight. Lo and behold, no one ever noticed it before but she's gorgeous. The woman and her daughters decide she's no a bad sort after all and they help her to continue to lose weight and teach her all about clothes and fashion and how to be a classy woman. I think she goes into the fashion field - designer I think, maybe model but I could be wron on that part.

She returns to the States and that's where I go totally blank.

If anyone could help me out with a name or an author I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Re: Need halp with a book title please...

Postby Claire » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:04 pm

All I can find that matches any of that is this

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Contemporary Authors New Revision
by Ann Evory, Linda Metzger - Literary Criticism - 1984

Page 308

The reader is introduced to a neglected and overweight Billy who is transformed
into a beautiful, slim young woman after a year's stay in Paris. ...

I assume that Contemporary Authors is a book about books but I cant find a specific author linked to the plot keywords, but it certainly sounds the same type plot so hopefully having the name billy will help jog someone elses memory
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Re: Need halp with a book title please...

Postby Qbar » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:25 pm

That is the book - the name Billy was instantly recognizable! That givs me one more word to search with, so I'm off to look. Thanks!
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Re: Need halp with a book title please...

Postby Qbar » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:42 pm

Many thanks to tmma83!!! :D

The book is "Scruples" by Judith Krantz

Off to go find it now.
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Re: Need help with a book title please... (got it thanks!!)

Postby soalla » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:27 pm

As I was looking for some books at my primordial sources :wink: I tried it for you but only get Mistral's Daughter and The Jewels Of Tessa Kent... no "Scruples" till now, maybe another time...
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