Fat (novel)
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Fat (2006) is a comedy novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant, satirising attitudes towards dieting and obesity. During the course of the book, various other themes are also satirised, including health and safety regulations, manufactured pop (including a parody of Girls Aloud, called Gurlz Banned) and lawyers. The book follows the lives of three somewhat unusual individuals over a period spanning a few days, in which their stories eventually interact to varying extents.
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Grenville Roberts: A divorced tv chef who is so fat that he is no longer "off the peg". Tends to into a rage should anybody mention his weight. He destroys another person's car and much of a health club during one such episode.
Hayleigh Griffin: A teenage girl who is starving herself by avoiding food where possible and discarding/regurgitating if not. Initially, the reader will believe her to be fat, but it later transpires that she is unhealthily thin. Her anorexia leads her to being sent to hospital.
Jeremy Slank: A Conceptuologist (fancy term for PR man) who is involved with the launch of the Well Farm Project, which is designed to be a retreat where fat people can go to help lose weight, but later turns out to be a facility resembling a concentration camp.
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