User:Lunamoony/Perfect novel

Bold textPerfect is an award winning novel written by Natasha Friend, also the author of Lush and Bounce.

Perfect is about a girl named Isabelle Lee. She is a typical teenage girl, has always been perfectly normal, until her father dies. Now, her mother spends hours on end in her bedroom, crying. Isabelle starts thinking she's fat, and starts throwing herself up, turning the habit into bulimia. One day, her sister April, who Isabelle has always been fond, finds her in the bathroom making herself throw up, and tells their mother. Now, Isabelle is forced into group therapy, and has dubbed her sister "Ape-Face". Isabelle arrives at group therapy, filled to the brim with people who have made a habit of making themselves throw up, and is feeling very uncomfortable. But the feeling worsens as Ashley Barnum, the most popular girl in school (pretty, kind, smart, perfect) walks into the room, and takes a seat. Over time, Isabelle and Ashley become friends. But "Group" is not helping their bulimia in the slightest. The habit turns into an obsession, and they are constantly eating and throwing up, eating and throwing up, and they even try laxatives, which don't work out so well for Isabelle. With help from everyone in the family, Isabelle eventually realizes what she is doing is wrong, and breaks away from Ashley.

CHARACTERS

Isabelle Lee

Ashley Barnum

April Lee

Mrs. Lee

Aunt Weezy

Electra