Jenny (known as Pumpkin at home) is 'cuddly'. This does not overly bother her until she and best friend Saffy decide to join a drama club. There she is teased by some unpleasant girls, and when an over-the-hill actress turns up to talk to the club and makes a cruel remark about Jenny's weight, she is mortified. This has the effect of making her binge eat more, encouraged by her chef father who is also a foodie. We see that other members of the family have problems too. Mum is a high-powered estate agent, always busy, beautiful older sister, Petal, is boy crazy, and younger brother, Pip, is too brainy for his own good. After Pumpkin has her picture taken for use on a book cover, she and Saffy discover the book is about a fat girl with learning difficulties. She is so horrified that this triggers a serious diet, with bouts of making herself sick when she has to eat. She is good at hiding the weight loss, but bulimia threatens, or even anorexia, and she becomes difficult. She and Saffy fall out, and in the midst of her misery, she realises that Petal and Pip also have major problems. The three of them become supportive of each other for the first time, and their parents have to accept their part in their children's problems. Pumpkin learns to accept she will never be slim, but that she will control her eating and be happy with her body. The family is a happy one basically, and there is lots of humour in the story as usual with Jean Ure. Highly readable and excellent on Jenny/Pumpkin's problems.