From the bestselling authors of The Knockoff, an outrageously funny novel about one woman's attempt-through clay diets, naked yoga, green juice, and cultish workout classes-to win back her career, save her best friend, and lose thirty pounds.
LUCY SYKES has worked in the fashion industry consulting for top
designers Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren as a spokesperson for
TJMaxx becoming the The First Maxxinista on a nationwide
commercial. Lucy worked as on staff fashion editor at Town and
Country and Allure magazine. For six years Lucy was the fashion
director at Marie Claire magazine, and was most recently fashion
director for Rent the Runway. She has appeared on fashion segments
for Good Morning America and The Today Show. Her own children's
clothing line, Lucy Sykes New York, was sold in more than a hundred
department stores worldwide, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys,
Bergdorf Goodman, and Nordstrom. Together with her twin sister
Plum, Lucy moved from London to New York City in 1996, where she
now lives with her husband and two sons.
JO PIAZZA is an award-winning reporter and editor who has written
for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the New York Daily
News, New York Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, Elle and Salon. She
has appeared on CNN, NPR, Fox News, the BBC and MSNBC. She received
a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia, a master's degree in
Religious Studies from NYU, and a bachelor's degree in Economics
from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of the
critically acclaimed If Nuns Ruled the World, Celebrity Inc- How
Famous People Make Money, and How to Be Married- What I Learned
from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really
Hard) Year of Marriage. She currently lives in San Francisco with
her husband and their giant dog.
A Good Morning America Summer Must-Read!
"There are no funnier, wittier people in all the land than Lucy
Sykes and Jo Piazza. The writers of The Knockoff are here with
their second novel about one woman’s attempt to basically fix her
entire life, which she is positive will happen by losing 30 pounds.
Think naked yoga. Think gross green juices. Think crazy cycling
classes. Yes, please!"
—Ruthie Friedlander, InStyle
"You’ll breeze through this one like you would a Saturday spin
class with the most fabulous playlist and the promise of brunch
cocktails after."
—Kirkus
"The Devil Wears Prada of the wellness world... It’s about time the
New York City fitness scene—booming in 2017 like never
before—got its roman à clef."
—Well+Good
"When Janey Sweet … navigates topless yoga and ruthless cycling
classes in Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza's satire, she realizes she’s
better off without the green juice."
—Us Weekly
"Takes aim squarely at the way in which our weight- and
fitness-obsessed culture infiltrates our daily lives... Fitness
Junkie will make you laugh as much as it will make you think."
—Shanee Edwards, SheKnows
"I laughed out loud reading Fitness Junkie, which serves a heaping
helping of hilarious satire, profiling the step-counting,
calorie-obsessed New Yorkers who fill the cronut-shaped holes in
their souls with workouts."
—Jill Kargman, creator and star of Odd Mom Out
"Fitness Junkie is a deliciously fun romp through the bizarre and
cult-like workouts of the superrich, from naked yoga to clay diets
to private island wellness retreats. Funny, frothy and
delicious."
—Jane Green, author of Falling
"I was thrown into the diet and exercising regimen of the 0.01% and
was barely able to exhale. Fitness Junkie moves furiously through
the torturous extremes women subject themselves to, all in the name
of pleasing someone else. Sykes and Piazza work their magic through
the eyes of a woman more like yourself. Read this and you will
never eat cronuts with a side of guilt again."
—Maureen Sherry, author of Opening Belle
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