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Product details

  • ISBN 9781782695707
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age story, beloved by writers such as Katherine Rundell and Pandora Sykes

Winner of the 2016 Prix Sorcières - the biggest French prize for children's books!

Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have just been voted the three ugliest girls in school by their classmates on Facebook. But does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it?...

...Well, yes. But not for long! Climbing onto their bikes, the friends set off on a summer road trip to Paris. With luck, they'll find fame, adventure and happiness on their journey, and still have time to scoff plenty of delicious food (and drink the odd glass of wine) along the way.

Piglettes is a hilarious, beautiful and uplifting story of friendship, fun and setting yourself free.

PRAISE FOR PIGLETTES

'Piglettes is an utter joy, from start to finish - I hope it becomes a modern classic' Pandora Sykes

'A triumph of a book; so funny, so original, so sharp, so warm' Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures

'One of the loveliest reading experiences I've had in years' Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places

'A superbly original reimagining of the road-trip novel, skewering societal obsessions with appearance'Guardian

'A strikingly satirical, outrageous tour de force' TLS

Clémentine Beauvais (born 1989) is a French children's author living in the UK. She started reading children's books early, and somehow never stopped. Now she writes her own, in both French and English, for a variety of ages, and is a lecturer in English and Education at the University of York. Piglettes won four prizes in France, including the biggest children's book prize, the Prix Sorcières. Film and stage versions are also in production. Now Clémentine has translated her book into English!