I was so surprised that the things you see on the show have actually happened to Rae. I think it’s a fun read for anyone who has been boy obsessed, overweight, or has self-harmed or has been in a mental institution. It’s just really nice to know you’re not alone with those thoughts and that some has been where you’ve been and has survived. Overall it was fun to see what Rae Earl’s life was really like when she was 17.

While I was reading it I did get the feeling that she did leave some things out of the book and I’m think she did that for the sake of the people she knows because she didn’t want to air their dirty laundry.

God bless the woman for having the courage to publish it. It was kind of weird reading this one though since this is actually Rae Earl’s diary. I’ve always been a really big fan of book diaries and I would read them all the time while growing up so I was excited to read this. I went into reading this book not having really high expectations since I heard that it wasn’t as good as the show but I think it's important to remember that with anything that goes from book to the big screen there are going to be differences. Obsessed! I’m about to re-watch season 1 again for the fourth time since April. Do I talk about the show first or the book first? If you don’t already know, I’m obsessed with the E4 show My Mad Fat Diary. But it will also strike a chord with anyone who’s ever been a confused, lonely teenager who clashes with their mother, takes themselves VERY seriously and has no idea how hilarious they are. My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary will appeal to anyone who’s lived through the 1980s. My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary evokes a vanished time when Charles and Di are still together, the Berlin wall is up, Kylie is expected to disappear from the charts at any moment and it’s £1 for a Snakebite and Black in the Vaults pub. This is the hilarious and touching real-life diary she kept during that fateful year - with characters like her evil friend Bethany, Bethany’s besotted boyfriend, and the boys from the grammar school up the road (who have code names like Haddock and Battered Sausage). It’s 1989 and Rae is a fat, boy-mad 17-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire with her mum and their deaf white cat in a council house with a mint off-green bath suite and a larder Rae can’t keep away from. Book: My Mad Fat Diary (or My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary) | Author: Rae Earl | Pages: 342

Mad fat teenage diary