My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts » (Reprint)

Cherry Whytock's shoe collection has increased dramatically since a recent trip to Morocco with her husband. When she's not rearranging her footwear or waiting for her two beautiful daughters to become fabulously famous, she can be found upside down in her Kentish flowerbeds, weeding. Sometimes Lily the boxer helps, but not often.

Cherry loves Vogue magazine, lacy underwear, and face cream, and would like to become a style icon when she grows up.

I'm, um, LARGE.
Yes, "large" just about covers it, although to be quite honest,
not many things do -- cover it, I mean.

Angelica Cookson Potts, better known as Angel, loves food, both cooking it and eating it, and plans to be a famous chef someday. But she thinks she's just too big -- her mother is a skinny ex-model, her best friends are all smaller than she is, and she feels like a huge, wobbly whale in comparison. In addition to food, Angel also loves Jamie Oliver (the Naked Chef) and Adam (who doesn't know she's alive). In order to get Adam's attention, she tries making major Life Changes, including a cabbage-only diet that has...well, explosive results. Through it all her best friends, Minnie, Portia, and Mercedes, are there with her, and when the school fashion show comes around, Angel discovers that her size might not be such a bad thing after all.

Everyone knows an Angel, and readers will laugh out loud at her take on life.

Angel's own recipes are included so that other "foodies" can cook along with her.

Publishers Weekly

PW called the heroine of this "diverting debut novel... a full-figured London 14-year-old with a flair for the dramatic and a penchant for good-humored self-deprecation." Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.