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Reader reviewed by Fiona Flamingo

Georgia leads a very ordinary English teenaged life: an all girls high school uniforms with about fifty different skirt lengths, sneaking off to Boots (a drug store) during double free periods with her friends... Georgia is more interested in boys --- meeting them, attracting them, potentially snogging them if she can ever figure out what to do with her arms --- than she is in the mysteries of physics or Frog (French). At 14 she sometimes thinks she's the only girl in the world without the very necessary appendage called the boyfriend, even though she knows this isn't true when she looks at her friends.

In the meantime Georgia must contend with parents who are just the littlest bit strange, and a three year old sister who suffers from exploding swimming knickers (panties) syndrome when fed baked beans before swimming. Georgia lives at the edge of love and mortification when she's with her family, so she tries to ignore them as much as possible. She's so successful at this that she nearly doesn't notice when her father leaves for New Zealand to look for a job. New Zealand is so far away it takes nearly two days by plane to get there. Is it any wonder then that Georgia's mum begins to flirt just a little with the builder (construction worker) who seems to taking forever to refit the lounge (living room)? If this sounds a bit like a soap, it should, but it's a soap driven by humor rather than the pathos.

ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL FRONTAL SNOGGING is funny enough to make the most pofaced bloke (sad looking guy) laugh out loud. This is a book to share with friends since they'll all want to know what a "tosser" is (no, I'm not going to tell you). Georgia is Everygirl taken to the extreme, her antics will make anything you've ever done when looking for that special guy seem staid, reasonable, or even worse, completely normal. Pick it up, read it, and lend it to a friend --- but only after you've borrowed something of equal value as hostage just to make sure you get it back.