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brains on the box

MY MAD FAT DIARY It’s 1996, Oasis is at the top of the charts, and Rae Earl is 16, 16 stone and “desperate for a shag” – at least, that’s how she describes herself. This nostalgia trip is a brutally funny portrayal of a teenage misfit struggling with anxiety, OCD and an eating disorder, plus all the usual hormone-driven problems teenagers face, like

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