Fat girls and lawn chairs - Cheryl Peck

Cheryl Peck has stories to tell - about her cats, her family, and about what it's like to be a gay woman of size living in the heartland. There's the story of the time she hit her kid sister in the head with a rock. Then there's the time her father gave her swimming lessons - by throwing her in - and as she came spluttering and shrieking to the surface, exclaiming 'Good - she can swim'. Cheryl Peck unfolds all her stories with a healthy sense of humour and intelligent wit in a book that reads like fiction and explores the themes of family, growing-up, love and loss.