//How to Build a Girl Betrays Its Blueprints

How to Build a Girl Betrays Its Blueprints

In 2014, journalist-cum-satirist Caitlin Moran released her semi-autobiographical novel How to Build a Girl, the tale of Johanna Morrigan, a young woman with grand aspirations whose upbringing—her large family lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands—mirrors Moran’s. The book, like so much of Moran’s work, stays