angus thongs and perfect snogging book series in order

While Jas zeroes in on Tom, Georgia sets her sights on Robbie, only to discover, to her dismay, that he’s dating Lindsay. So far, so “Clueless,” Brit-style.Īlong come school newcomers and handsome “sex gods” Tom (Sean Bourke) and his brother, Robbie (Aaron Johnson), just moved down from London.

At school, she’s locked in a peer war with sexy bitch-on-wheels Lindsay (Kimberley Nixon). Georgia, soon to hit 15, obsesses about her looks and inexperience with boys, resents her loving parents (Alan Davies, Karen Taylor) for still calling her “munchkin,” and tolerates her younger sis, Libby (Eva Drew), who thinks she’s a cat. The girls, along with gawky Ellen (Manjeevan Grewal) - changed to an Indian for the movie - and Rosie (Georgia Henshaw), are a self-contained group at a high school in Eastbourne, on England’s south coast. In a pairing that strongly recalls the characters played by Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in Chadha’s “Bend It Like Beckham,” though without their emotional closeness, plain Jane Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome, “London to Brighton”) is best pals with willowy blonde Jas (Eleanor Tomlinson). What’s left is a likable potpourri of 14-year-old girls talking about boys, snogging and “old-fashioned” parents, and getting their knickers in a twist over peer pressure.

Chadha has stated the movie is her own homage to the ’80s movies of John Hughes (especially “Sixteen Candles”), but the often gauche, very English dialogue lacks the well-sculptured bounce of Hughes’ writing, and Rennison’s books have much less plot to work from than even the “Bridget Jones” tomes. Largely based on the first two of Rennison’s nine books to date, pic takes the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” route of flattening out the diary-like structure of the originals into a regular narrative, with occasional v.o.

Angus thongs and perfect snogging book series in order