Author Description

Rob Grant's new novel is a revelation. FAT is a killingly funny satire about our obsession with body image and how the media makes us what we are. But in its depiction of Grenville, a fat man at his wits end with the need to be thin; of Hayleigh, a teenage girl obsessed with her terror of being fat and of Jeremy, the self-abso- rbed, self-adoring 'conceptualist' employed to promote the government's new 'Fat Farms', Rob Grant has given us, yes a very, very funny book, but also an immensely moving and personal novel about how we all feel about our bodies. As Grenville deals with the humiliation and daily indignity of being fat, as Hayleigh struggles to deal with her anorexia and as Jeremy comes to terms with the dangerous lies at the centre of the governments new health regime, FAT takes us on a hilarious and thought-provoking journey through our all-consuming obsession with fat.