Book review: Dietland

THE lead character in Dietland, Plum, is unusual in a novel — she’s fat. She’s unhappy, living a very small life that barely takes her anywhere other than her apartment and her local cafe, where she is embarrassed to be seen eating a scone in public, and she suffers cruel looks and comments.

Dietland takes the idea of ‘fat is a feminist issue’ on a complicated and difficult journey.

Contemplating getting her stomach stapled, Plum thinks when she is thin all her dreams will come to fruition.