Girl, Ultra-Processed : A bold, body-positive YA about friendship, dating and self-love.

Author: Sage, Amara Interest age: from c 14 yearsPublished on 16 January 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 320 pages198 x 128 x 20 | 260g 'Thoughtful, sassy, and full of joy. A gift for a teenage girl - and a very enjoyable read for this adult reader, too' Pandora Sykes'Heartwarming, hard-hitting YA takedown of diet culture.'Guardian New year, new me!That's what Saffron Saldana tells herself as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve.Her resolution is the same every year: lose weight.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 dietingis hard.So to escape her own reality, Saffron creates Sydney, a super-slim, AI-generated 'perfect'version of herself. Boys online love Sydney, and for Saffron, it's just a bit of harmless fun.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.Can Saffron find a way back to herself, and learn to love who she actually is?Girl: Ultra-Processed 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.A searing look at diet culture and all its ugly consequences, from the talented writer of Influential.