A controversial, throught-provoking yet witty novel about the pursuit of perfection -- the perfect appearance, relationship and life. 28-year-old Sunny Weston is as bright, breezy and fun as her name suggests. She is also fat.Very fat. But in the last year, she has lost seven stone, has two more to go, and is finding that it changes everything and nothing. As she becomes thinner, she finds she is still scared of men, and her own feelings, and doesn't trust them to have genuine feelings for her. When Adrian, the work colleague she has been in love with for the past five years, suddenly decides that the new streamlined Sunny is the girl for him, she should be elated. But she is anything but, realising that Adrian is just in love with how she looks, not who she is. Meanwhile, across town, Cagney James runs a honey-trapping agency, catching out cheating partners, has been divorced three times, and silently blames women for ruining his life. He will be forty in three months' time. Cagney doesn't do conversation, he does put-downs. He has been hurt too many times to lower his guard. addicted to her sessions with her therapist, although she desperately tries to avoid discussing anything that might actually upset her, naturally. Cagney thinks the gym is for fools, but Sunny is addicted to the running machine. When Sunny and Cagney meet under stressful circumstances, sparks fly and tempers flare, but both their hearts are a little too hard to recognise that they might have found somebody who is right for them in each other. So they decide that they hate each other instead and that's when things really hot up!
