Fat (2006) is a comedy novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant, satirising attitudes towards dieting and obesity. During the course of the book, various other themes are also satirised, including health and safety regulations, manufactured pop (including a parody of Girls Aloud, called Gurlz Banned) and lawyers.
Character histories
Grenville Roberts: A divorced tv chef who is so fat that he is no longer "off the peg". Tends to fly off the handle should anybody mention his weight. Hayleigh Griffin: A teenage girl who is starving herself by avoiding food where possible and discarding/regurgitating if not. Initially, the reader will believe her to be fat, but it later transpires that she is unhealthily thin. Jeremy Slank: A Conceptuologist (fancy term for PR man) who is involved with the launch of the Well Farm Project, which is designed to be a retreat where fat people can go to help get lose weight, but later turns out to be a facility resembling a concentration camp.
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| Rob Grant • Doug Naylor | |
| Television: | Red Dwarf • Spitting Image • Dark Ages • The Strangerers • The 10%ers • Cruel Aliens • Carrott's Lib • Stressed Eric |
| Radio: | Son of Cliché • Wrinkles • Dave Hollins: Space Cadet |
| Novels: | Red Dwarf • Better Than Life • Last Human • Backwards • Colony • Incompetence • Fat |
