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Mary Brown is funny, gorgeous, and bonkers. She's also about six stone overweight. When she realises she can't cross her legs, has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, and discovers even her hands and feet look fat, it's time to take action. But what action? She's tried every diet under the sun. This is the hysterical story of what happens when Mary joins "Fat Club", where she meets a cast of funny characters and one particular man who catches her eye.

All hail the magnificent Mary Brown! She is funny, gorgeous, and bonkers and here she is in a box set for the first time. "Mary Brown is Bridget Jones on fire! This is modern, fresh and SO FUNNY!" When we meet Mary she is heavily overweight. When she realises that she can't cross her legs and has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, it's time to take action. So, one rainy day, she puts down her pizza and heads off to Fat Club, where she flirts, causes mayhem, and celebrates every pound lost with a huge glass of wine. The friends she ...

Get ready for a wild ride with Rosie Brown, the sassy sixty-something determined to show the world that age is just a number. Her mission to take control of her life begins when she gets out of bed and realises that every part of her is starting to creak. All she's done is lie down for eight hours, but she has the sort of neck pain that a younger person would associate with severe whiplash from a multi-car pile-up. There are so many clicks and clacks from her creaking joints it sounds like someone’s knitting next to her as she walks. Serenaded by knitting needles when she used to be ...

Mary Brown is the star of the Adorable Fat Girl series. She's funny, gorgeous, and bonkers, and when the series starts, she's seriously overweight. She heads for Fat Club and slowly starts to lose weight. The novels tell the tales of the fun she has and the people she meets as she battles the pounds. As well as having a crazy amount of fun, she also loses weight...a massive 40 pounds! How did she do it? Here in this audiobook - for the first time - she describes the rules that helped her. Also included are the stories of readers who have written in to share their weight loss stories.

A gripping new novel from million-selling author Bernice Bloom "This is the best book yet. I loved it." Mary Brown heads to the beautiful island of St Lucia on the holiday of a lifetime. She’s planning to relax and take things easy. But on the second evening, while walking on the beach, she finds a purse buried in the sand. Inside it is a folded map, a key, and an invitation to a party on a boat the next evening. There’s also an identity card for someone called Cara Jeffries. And...thousands and thousands of dollars. The wallet does not have a phone number, so Mary heads to the boat ...

Welcome to the kind approach to weight loss. This is different from other weight loss books. It's packed with stories about how other people lost weight, along with small tips that lead to subtle mind changes and big success. "This book works. You will lose weight and feel so much better about yourself." Daily Mail "A warm, tender, friendly book that helped me lose 20lbs..." Heath & Fitness magazine The book stars Mary Brown - the heroine of the Mary Brown series of novels. She's funny, gorgeous and bonkers, and when the series starts, she's seriously overweight. She heads for Fat Club and ...

THREE wonderful mystery books from the best-selling comedy writer Bernice Bloom. Including: Mysterious Invitation... SIX STRANGERS RECEIVE INVITATIONS TO A FUNERAL They are told that the deceased – a man called Reginald Charters – invited them on his deathbed. But who on earth is Reginald Charters? And why was he so desperate to have these six people at his funeral? The group of six strangers is told that they have 20 hours to figure out why they have been invited to the funeral. If they can do so, they will inherit a million pounds. So, they start talking. But it's complicated. Not ...

* PREVIOUSLY RELEASED AS 'HANDBOOK FOR ADORABLE FAT GIRLS* Oh my word, it can be hard sometimes…. You turn on the television, and there are all the Strictly dancers who weigh about three stone each with legs no wider than your fingers, so you turn over...you can’t be doing with three stone dancers. So, it's off with them and onto the next channel. This will be a better programme, on it comes and it's...Love Island - yay, young people with hollow stomachs and legs like gazelles wandering across the screen with negative fat content. Right, you say - putting one final channel on...you ...

FROM MILLION-SELLING WRITER BERNICE BLOOM A FABULOUSLY FUNNY TALE ABOUT WEIGHT LOSS CAMPS AND THE HORRORS OF INTERNET DATING. 'I just loved it.' A wonderful book.' “It was hysterical, some bits made me laugh out loud, and other parts made me blush with recognition.” "This is definitely one of my favourite of Mary’s adventures so far! I feel like they’re just getting better and better! Can’t wait for the next one!!" Mary Brown heads to Portugal for a weight loss camp and discovers it’s nothing like she expected. “I thought it would be Slimming World in the sunshine, but this is...

THE LOVELY NEW SERIES FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, BERNICE BLOOM "Feel-good happiness and four gorgeous sisters. It's Little Women for modern readers!"* Hello, and welcome to the wonderful world of the Lopez sisters - four great women living in a lovely yellow beach house in a pretty fishing village called Cove Bay in Devon. As we join them today, things are going seriously awry for Isabella, the chatty hairdresser who runs Curlers Hairdressing Salon. Izzy has seen her sister Lisa find love and would like to find someone for herself. But she is paranoid about her weight and convinced that no ...

FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR BERNICE BLOOM... Please note: this was previously called: Confessions of an Adorable Fat Girl Charlie has met a man and fallen madly in love. Mike is everything she's ever wanted: kind, charming and attentive. He's also a world-class jeweller and very rich. But Mary Brown's not convinced at all. She instantly distrusts the flash jeweller with the fancy shoes and is convinced he’s going to hurt her friend. So when Charlie finds a box of letters and photographs, hidden in the wardrobe, buried under Mike’s clothes, Mary is convinced that it points to just one thing...

For readers who enjoy laugh-out-loud moments, a splattering of romance and one quite magnificent heroine. Mary Brown is back in box set format for the third time. In BOX SET THREE of her fabulously funny novels, follow Mary Brown in 'A Friend in Need' as she goes chasing around the country to find out whether Charlie's boyfriend is being faithful to her, then join her for 'Dog Days' as she gets herself a puppy and integrates herself into the dog walking community. Then...it's 'Don't Mention the Hen Weekend' as Mary goes off on a hen weekend like no other (spoiler alert - they end up in jail...

Mary Brown is funny, gorgeous, and bonkers. She's also about 50lbs overweight. When she realises that she can't cross her legs and has trouble bending over to tie her shoelaces without wheezing like an elderly chain-smoker, it's time to take action. So, one rainy day she puts down her pizza and heads off to Fat Club, where she flirts, causes mayhem, and celebrates every pound lost with a huge glass of wine.

The adorable fat girl needs to do something to get fit, so she tries yoga. She signs up for a weekend retreat, packs up assorted snacks, and heads for the countryside to get in touch with her chi and her third eye. And that's when it all goes wrong. Featuring frantic chickens, an unexpected mud bath, men in loose-fitting shorts and no pants, calamitous headstands, a bizarre new friendship with a yoga guru, and a quick hospital trip.

Kelly is a pretty girl from a very ordinary family with an extraordinary secret...she is dating one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Rufus George - the handsome, millionaire star of countless blockbuster films. No one knows. And it's great. But then Rufus asks her to come and live with him, so she tells her flatmates and takes him to meet her parents, and all hell breaks loose - it turns out that it's very hard to live an ordinary life when you're going out with a movie star. Soon, photographers are circling, unscrupulous journalists are hovering, and ADORING WOMEN EVERYWHERE want to ruin her ...

SIX STRANGERS RECEIVE INVITATIONS TO A FUNERAL They are told that the deceased – a man called Reginald Charters – invited them on his deathbed. But who on earth is Reginald Charters? And why was he so desperate to have these six people at his funeral? “It’s a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie” The group of six strangers are told that they have 20 hours to work out why they have been invited to the funeral. If they can work it out, they will inherit a million pounds. So, they start talking. But it's complicated. Not everything is as it seems. More clues arrive, but they struggle to...

Meet Tracie Martin - Luton Town’s longest serving Wag. There's nothing she doesn' like about her life. From the acrylic nails and Louboutin shoes to the terrifying amounts of fake tan. Tracie loves it. Being a Wag is all she ever wanted. But as a new football season starts, she's getting concerned...there is a breed of Wag at Luton who aren’t quite playing by the conventional Wag rules. Some of them have skirts so long they are almost covering their knickers, and their skins are natural in hue, rather than resembling the colour of a cheesy Wotsit. Do they know nothing about being a Wag?...

Hooray, it's Christmas! It's the Adorable Fat Girl's favorite time of year, and she embraces it with the sort of thrill and excitement normally reserved for toddlers seeing jelly tots. Our funny, gorgeous, and bonkers heroine finds herself dancing from party to party, covered in tinsel, decorating the Beckhams' Christmas tree, dressing up as Father Christmas, declaring live on This Morning that she's a drug addict and enjoying two Christmas lunches in quick succession. She's the party queen as she stumbles wildly from disaster to disaster....

A chance meeting with an old school friend sends Mary Brown off on three fabulous adventures. First, it’s to a safari in South Africa. She arrives dressed like Meryl Streep in Out of Africa and ends the trip stuck in a tree wearing nothing but her knickers.

Mary Brown - our full-figured heroine - is off on a cruise. It's the trip of a lifetime...featuring eat-all-you-can buffets and a trek through Europe with a 96-year-old widower called Frank and a flamboyant Spanish dancer called Juan Pedro. Then there's the desperately handsome captain, the appearance of an ex-boyfriend on the ship, the time she's mistaken for a Hollywood film star in Lisbon, and tons of clothes shopping all over Europe.