Girl, UltraProcessed

<p><b><i>'Thoughtful, sassy, and full of joy. A gift for a teenage girl — and a very enjoyable read for this adult reader, too' <br></i>Pandora Sykes<br><br></b><b><i>'Heartwarming, hard-hitting YA takedown of diet culture</i>.'<br>Guardian </b><br><br><i>New year, new me!</i><br><br>That’s what Saffron Saldana tells herself as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve.<br>Her resolution is the same every year: lose weight.<br>Because Saffron has it hard-wired that weight loss equals happiness. It’s what she’s been told her whole life – online, in magazines, especially by her own diet-obsessed mother. But dieting<br>is hard.<br><br>So to escape her own reality, Saffron creates Sydney, a super-slim, AI-generated ‘perfect’<br>version of herself. Boys online love Sydney, and for Saffron, it's just a bit of harmless fun.<br><br>Until the boundaries of her life online and offline begin to blur . . . And one boy in particular makes her question her desire to be someone she’s not.<br><br>Can Saffron find a way back to herself, and learn to love who she actually is?<br><br><i>Girl: Ultra-Processed</i> explores what it is like to be a teenage girl in our current body-obsessed world while juggling family drama, friend dynamics, dating, betrayals and major life changes.<br><br><b>A searing look at diet culture and all its ugly consequences, from the talented writer of <i>Influential</i>.</b></p>