The issues of body image, family troubles, making friendships, fancying a friend, and mental illness. Teenage Rae went through struggles that almost every teenager goes through. This personal account of her thoughts and feelings is a real treasure to explore. You can’t help but sympathise and empathise with this girl, I related so much with Rae whilst reading this, and it actually helped me realise some things about myself. She doesn’t seem to leave any stone unturned, anything she felt she wrote in her diary. Her diary is honest, which is the most important thing about this book. Rae struggled with body image and her mental health, she was admitted to a mental ward when she was 16-years-old and this book is her original diary during the time after she left the hospital and regained contact with her family and friends. This book relates Rae Earl’s complicated teenage years during the late 1980s, published in 2007. One book I recently read again that focuses on this subject is My Mad Fat Diary, originally named ‘My Fat Mad Teenage Diary’, which is one of my all-time favourites. The subject of mental health is something that is being widely spoken about in today’s society and I couldn’t be happier.
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