THE PERFECT FIT

Author: Louise Kean ISBN: 0061173088 3/2007 FICTION Publisher: HARPER

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.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

THE PERFECT FIT is an engaging, witty story about self-acceptance.

Sunny Weston always dreamed that perfection with regards to her body size would bring a miraculous transformation to her world. Friends would be warm and wonderful, family would become supportive and the man she'd been ogling would fall at her feet. They'd have a romance like none other, and the world—her world, at least—would be perfect.

But when Sunny diets, becoming the woman she's dreamed of being, the truth couldn't be further from what she'd imagined. Along with the realization that a perfect body doesn't guarantee an ideal existence, she learns to love herself for who she really is, inside whatever body she's got. And with that self-acceptance comes love from an unlikely source, a man named Cagney James.

THE PERFECT FIT is a tale that reminds the reader that a woman with a trim bottom can still face many of life's trials—and she can overcome them, too.

Kay James