Sister Ursula wrestled with her rosary. "Buried deep inside every fat girl, Imogen, a thin girl is desperately trying to get out." Villa Eilenroc, the fabled villa on the French Riviera, with its legendary parties and even more legendary guests - crinolined queens and cruel kings, Romanov Grand Dukes and Spanish grandees, the Fitzgeralds, Carnegie, Garbo, and Valentino. Set in the world of the super-rich, from St Tropez to San Remo, a world of glamour and hurt. Imogen O'Rorke is fat, plain, and unmarried. Cassandra Austin is thin, beautiful, and married. Her husband, Nick Austin, is rich, handsome, and likes fat women. Something has to give. A book about the weight of expectations. A book about food and wine, fashion and infidelity; and lots of chocolate ...

Table of Contents:
PROLOGUE ---- Convent of the Sacred Heart Manhattan ---- FATTY ---- The Catering Countess, Fatty, Claudia and Claudia, St-Trop, Chanel, Dishing the Dirt, Les voiles, Les people, Menu du jour, Marcus Gavius Apicius, Montrachet, Chablis, 1961, Romanee-Conti, Haute chocolaterie ---- THINSPIRATION ---- Thinspiration, A Hothouse Atmosphere, The Gardens of Queen Elena, The Belle Epoque Railway Station Scene, Versace Romance ---- LOSE WEIGHT THROUGH SEX ---- A Totally Fat Wardrobe, A Fuck Me Lunch, The Plot Thickens, Left Bank v Right Bank, Montecatini Terme, Fat Girl Rodeo, Kind of Blue, Lucca, Figgy-Dowdy, Moscow-on-Sea, Lose Weight through Sex ---- RUBENESQUE ---- Pierre Marcolini, A Woman Scorned, Pros and Cons, Cherchez la femme, Rubenesque, Combattente, Kompromat, A Balanced Diet, Pros and Cons (again), Thigh Gap ---- FOOD FOR THOUGHT ---- La Croisette, Oh! s'io potessi dissipare le nubi, Culoni, A la carte, Size matters, Pelmeni, Caviare to the General, Escoffier, Truffle Hunting, Le dejeuner, Boeuf en daube, Food for Thought, Bombe Nero ---- VILLA EILENROC ---- "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", Le Numero Cinq, Cooked English, Comfort Food, The Tale of a Fairy, Villa Eilenroc, Myth-making ---- EPILOGUE ---- Sur la plage.