"Chick lit" is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole diaries which inspired Adele Lang's Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber: The Katya Livingston Chronicles in the mid-1990s. Another strong early influence can be seen in the books by M. C. Beaton about Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. The style can also be seen to be somewhat influenced by female teen angst movies like Sixteen Candles and Clueless. Later with the appearance of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and similar works; the genre continued to sell well in the 2000s, with chick lit titles topping bestseller lists and the creation of imprints devoted entirely to chick lit.

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A cat looks after several chicks after the hen was killed at a farm in Amman, Jordan, May 13, 2007.

Story about a husband who's written about the absurd machinations his wife went through trying to keep her breasts pumping out baby milk in the working world. His story was one of few if only male-authored stories that made the cut in the new book, Chicken Soup for the Working Mom's Soul.

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