Like other girls (Tapa blanda)

What does it mean to be a girl? How do you know you're a girl or a boy; if you like girls or boys? Sixteen-year-old Lauren's never really cared. She knows there's more to life than fitting neatly into a tiny box - she's okay with dressing however she wants, and kissing whoever she wants. Labels are for jars, not for people. Not everyone agrees, of course - her posh all-girls school want them to be Perfect Young Ladies, and her new boyfriend's friends are super-conservative in comparison to her LGBTQ club crowd. It's suddenly harder not to be a stereotypical girl when everyone around her is acting like she needs to - and harder still when her best friend comes out as trans, which she knows she's supposed to be cool with but still feels betrayed by. If even the genderfluid crowd are deciding they need to be labelled as one thing or another, then maybe she just needs to give in to conformity. Because it's easier to be like everyone else. It's easier to be just like the other girls. It's easier to disappear from the internet and stop caring about social justice and just be - well, fun. Pretty. Cute. Her mother's much happier, her teachers are delighted, and her boyfriend tells her he loves her. It's all so much easier - until she finds out that she is the most girlish thing of all ... Claire Hennessy's second novel is a wryly funny, completely gripping look at sexuality, identity and growing up - all with Claire's trademark wit, intelligence and insight.