The Perfect Fit

By Louise Kean and Alex Brown

Book Overview

Sunny Weston always wanted to be perfect . . . and that meant being thin. Now, after what seemed like a million years on the treadmill--and a million miles from the nearest brownie--she finally fits into those slinky black dresses she's been eyeing for years.

But being a perfect size doesn't necessarily equal a perfect life. Suddenly Sunny's best friends are all bitter and jealous. She's become a stranger in her own body. And though her longtime work crush, Adrian, is finally her boyfriend, she's totally confused now that charming, daringly dapper Cagney has appeared on the scene. Worst of all, she's worried that the recipe for a happy life might not be low-calorie after all.

Maybe it's time for Sunny to discover that the true secret to happiness isn't constantly feeling hollow.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061173088
• ISBN13: 9780061173080
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Perfect Ten

This is a great book for a fun, fast read. Please note: this is the same book as Perfect Ten. For some reason it was released under both names. Don't make the same mistake I did and buy the same book twice!

What they don't tell you about being skinny

I think every woman who has lost, is in the process of, or wants to lose weight should read this book. While a fun summer read, it is humourously insightful into the obsessive female mind when it comes to being skinny and beautiful. Sunny Weston is both an imaginative and relatable character who is flawed yet continues to search for something better. She perfectly expresses the peril of replacing one obsession with food with an obsession of "beauty", showing how easily self-improvement can morph into vanity. It is a challenging book, with a message of trying to find out who you are for yourself in spite of the surrounding pressures of imaginary standards set by society and friends. If you want a great read with original characters, and a fresh twist to the ugly duckling story, I highly recommend this book!

A Fun Read

I found this book to be a fun and interesting read. I can relate to how Sunny feels after losing a large amount of weight and not being sure of who she is anymore. A good book for someone who has weight issues.

interesting inspirational tale

Sunny Weston has believed forever that her weight correlates to her happiness. Now that she has lost ninety-eight pounds, she wonders why she remains unhappy. She ponders if it is the skin now hanging loose, that she transformed her addiction to food into an addiction to lose weight, or that she finally has the attention of her long time unrequited love Adrian though he is engaged to someone else. Her friends suddenly detest her leading Sunny to think they are jealous, but also feeling alone. Sipping coffee, Sunny hears a woman screaming hysterically. A man has abducted six years old Dougal. Sunny has finally found some good with the weight gone as she runs down the culprit and the rescues the child. Cagney helps her contain the snatcher. They meet at the police station and are attracted to one another. However, she assumes a hunk like Cagney would never have given her a first look a century of weight ago. Still she feels she should still love Adrian while Cagney makes her feel like a strong woman to admire. This is an interesting inspirational tale that stars a woman who has always believed her weight equates to happiness until she begins to realize there is more to a person that what a scale says. Sunny begins to truly change when she realizes losing the weight helped her run down the pedophile but that it is she mentally needing to change if she is to prevent her "psychological weight" from returning all she lost. Though the romantic subplot is too easy fixed, the key to this fine character study is that the heroine learns that to find inner contentment beyond the personal appearance of THE PERFECT FIT jeans is a bodacious lofty goal worth pursuing. Harriet Klausner