My Mad Fat Diary

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

• overweight
• northern england
• dark comedy
• psychiatric hospital
• group of friends
• unlikely lovers
• body image
• teen drama
• mental disorders
• 1990s
• anxious
• dramatic
• comforting
• sarcastic