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Inner peace
Glowing skin
The perfect body
How far would you go?

Jane Dorner has two modes:

PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator.

Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her…

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1 author picked The Glow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book is HILARIOUS. Oh my giddy aunt, I laughed so much. Jane the protag has so many issues - petty jealousies, aimlessness, unbelief - that to insert her into the world of a cult figure was always going to be a disaster waiting to happen. To have her be in PR? Genius. Also, not to brag but I am personally responsible for about ten copies of this book being sold. This is solid data.
Source: Trust me, bro. Also, Twitter.

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