What the **** is Normal?!

'After a very happy childhood, I strode into high school as a wobbly, fashion-deprived teenager and was promptly transformed into an unhappy, insecure wreck who desperately wanted to be seen as normal by my bitchy classmates. Five years on Grange Hill, one stand-up-comedy workshop and a passionate love affair later, I finally realised I had the power to stop judging myself by society's standards and create my own.'





What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, cellulite is cause for a mental breakdown and women over a size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the **** do you do if you're, gasp, disabled?


When Francesca was two years old, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Her parents were told by a consultant that she would never lead a normal life. For many girls, this would have meant hiding away and accepting some things were beyond their reach. Not this girl.


What the **** is Normal? is personal, funny and insightful, and explores just how bloody hard it is to learn to like yourself - wobbly or not - in this world. It's Francesca's attempt to stick two shaky fingers up to the superficial values around her by refusing to be labelled abnormal, normal, or anything other than Francesca.


After all, she's never even met a normal person. Have you?