How to be Famous
The laugh-out-loud Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller
1st Edition
Published on 28. June 2018
336 pages
978-1-4481-1850-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Sunday Times bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club favourite
'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review
'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex - especially bad sex' Judy's Review
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I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!
My unrequited love, John Kite, is busy with a Number One album, world-tour, drugs, and a nervous breakdown.
So, I've started hanging out with hot young comedian Jerry Sharp. Big mistake.
"He's a vampire," my friend Suzanne warns. "One of those men who destroys bright young girls. Also, he's a total dick."
Unfortunately, I've already had sex with him. Bad sex. And now, I'm one of the girls he is trying to destroy.
I know I have to stop him. But how does one girl fight a famous, powerful man?
A novel about friendship, feminism and finding your place in the world.
'Being Moran, the jokes and one-liners fizz and crackle off the page' Richard's Review
'As usual, Moran writes fearlessly, openly, honestly and incredibly funnily about sex - especially bad sex' Judy's Review
___________________________
I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!
My unrequited love, John Kite, is busy with a Number One album, world-tour, drugs, and a nervous breakdown.
So, I've started hanging out with hot young comedian Jerry Sharp. Big mistake.
"He's a vampire," my friend Suzanne warns. "One of those men who destroys bright young girls. Also, he's a total dick."
Unfortunately, I've already had sex with him. Bad sex. And now, I'm one of the girls he is trying to destroy.
I know I have to stop him. But how does one girl fight a famous, powerful man?
A novel about friendship, feminism and finding your place in the world.
Reviews / Votes
Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump It's quite a ride, this book. It's laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic and fiercely angry. Often all at once ... beautifully written * THE TIMES * A deeply satisfying tale of sex, drugs, britpop, unrequited love, London, and a narrator I completely adore. This is funny, philosophical, and poignant in equal measure. Glorious and life-enhancing Brilliantly funny, caustic social commentary with the best-wish fulfilment revenge scene I've read, like, ever * THE POOL * A rollicking fantasy which leaves a rosy afterglow * GUARDIAN * A glorious life-affirming love letter to teenage girls, pop music, best friends and that one guy you'll never get enough of * RED MAGAZINE * Moran's words are, as always, kind, tender and achingly funny. This is a real love letter to teenage girls and North London - if this book was a popstar I'd be putting its posters up on my wall and doodling its name all over my Maths book On every page you'll find yourself tits-deep in word treasure. A filthy, gutsy, exhilarating call to arms A machete-sharp follow up [to How to Build a Girl] ... boasts a rogue's gallery of brilliant characters familiar to anyone who has ever read the NME * IRISH INDEPENDENT * The dazzlingly gifted Moran makes mythic the maligned, misunderstood, momentous 1990s. Prose crackling and fizzing with charm, mischief and passion, she is the sharpest, funniest, most influential writer of her generation, which is also my generation, annoyinglyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
File size
3,21 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4481-1850-2 (9781448118502)
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Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home educated on a council estate in Woverhampton. She published her first novel at 16 and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has won Columnist of the Year seven times and has also been named Interviewer and Critic of the Year. Her million-selling groundbreaking feminist memoir How to be a Woman was voted one of the Sunday Times 'Most Important Books of the Twenty-First Century'.
Caitlin's other books have also been bestsellers and How to Build a Girl was made into a film with Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. Her Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, co-written with her sister Caroline Moran, won a Rose d'Or for Best Sitcom. Her Who's Who entry lists her interests as 'cava, eyeliner, hair embiggening, and The Struggle'.
She lives in North London with her husband and two children, and, after following all her own advice, she really is hopeful now.
Caitlin's other books have also been bestsellers and How to Build a Girl was made into a film with Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. Her Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves, co-written with her sister Caroline Moran, won a Rose d'Or for Best Sitcom. Her Who's Who entry lists her interests as 'cava, eyeliner, hair embiggening, and The Struggle'.
She lives in North London with her husband and two children, and, after following all her own advice, she really is hopeful now.
