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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Tippermuir Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781913836214

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 208

PUBLICATION DATE:
June 26, 2023

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Fat Girl Best Friend

Sarah Grant

In Fat Girl Best Friend, Sarah Grant takes the reader on a pop culture voyage which encompasses Bridgerton, The DUFF, Encanto, Orange is the New Black, Pitch Perfect, Pride and Prejudice, Shrek, Star Wars, Stranger Things, The Vicar of Dibley, to name but a few.

We all want to live our lives with oodles of Main Character Energy, but for some of us, we just don’t look like your average entertainment thin Leading Lady.

While we live in an age of body positivity, we are not seeing that reflected in the cinema or on our television screens. From Fat Monica to Fat Amy, plus size women in film and television are a rare commodity, and if we see ourselves represented at all, it’s not a pretty picture. We’re either the pitied bully victim or the empty, sympathetic and disposable best friend.

Through the lens of Female Friendship, Fat Girl Best Friend dives into the treatment of plus size women in film and television, and goes looking for that Main Character Energy we all know we deserve.

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Sarah Grant

Sarah is a working-class writer, filmmaker, and poet from Glasgow. She has made numerous BAFTA qualifying short films, and numerous comedy sketches for BBC Scotland, featuring body and sex positive female-fronted comedy (one of which won a Royal Television Society Scotland award) and gained tens of millions of views across digital and social media.

She is currently taking steps towards creating long-form film and television work, having developed a feature script with Short Circuit and Screen Scotland through their First Features programme, and partaking in programmes such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab and UKTV Comedy 50:50 pilot initiative.

Sarah is the co-writer of new BBC Scotland comedy 15-minute pilot, ‘STUNNERS’. Sarah is committed to body positive, sex positive and inclusive female-led stories that are honest, feminist and fearless.