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Books

Perfect Me by Heather Widdows

A ‘feminish’ book, reviewed by Stuart Hannabuss, reflects on beauty and otherness.

We want to make the best of ourselves. We have an imagined self to which we aspire. We’re told that we have to be beautiful or handsome if we want to be loved. And there are plenty of people out there keen to sell us products and services that will make us perfect, or nearly so.

It is easy to categorize this as mere taste or fashion.

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