Hopscotch and Handbags: The Truth About Being a Girl

Customer Reviews

A great book for those of us girls born in the 70s (or men who want to understand women better!) - By: Snapdragon, 24 Jun 2008
`Hopscotch & Handbags' is a great memoir & exploration about female experience from primary school through to work & motherhood. This could have made it incredibly dull & worthy, but in fact this is an amazingly funny book (although it probably has most resonance for women born in the early to mid seventies.)

The real highlights for me were the parts about friendships in primary school; 24 hours in the life of a co-habiting couple; the danger that you will one day turn into your mother; & first experiences of clothes & make-up. Magan reminisces about the time when you had to save up for a piece of clothing that your mother refused to buy you & saved every scrap of pocket money to buy cheap cosmetics that could only be removed with a sand-blaster (Oh dear, I remember it well!) I too tried to make perfume, in a jam jar, with rose petals & water only to be left with something murky & foul smelling.

Perhaps the most worrying section was the one that comes at the end of the book about indicators that you are now a `woman.' Although it did come as something of a relief to know that there is someone else out there who gets a sense of pride from a well-pegged line of washing. Sad but true!

A brilliant book. Highly recommended.

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