You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Tapa dura

Gentle, shy twenty-five-year-old Neve works in a dusty archive library, and is half the woman she used to be - literally. Determined to make a change, she has whittled her body down from an unprintable size to a size fourteen so that when the love of her life, William, returns from his sabbatical in LA in six months, he'll see the new her and fall in love with her body as well as her mind. In the mean time, her little sister Celia, horrified by Neve's total inexperience when it comes to love, decides she needs a practice boyfriend. And she just happens to have the perfect temporary solution - sexy, flirtatious, irresponsible, heart-breaking Max, who's never had a relationship longer than a one night stand himself. But Max and Neve should have known that nothing is simple when it comes to affairs of the heart...

Sarra Manning has worked on and contributed to Melody Maker, Just 17, ELLE Girl, The Face, Seventeen, the Guardian, What to Wear and Details and now writes for ELLE, Grazia, Red and the Sunday Telegraph 'Stella' magazine.