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How to be Famous
- Author
- Caitlin Moran
- Narrator
- Louise Brealey
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 June 2018
- Run Time
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran, read by Louise Brealey.
Life is always better backstage, isn't it?
A funny, riotous novel about a young women making it in a world where men hold all the power from the Sunday Times bestselling author of HOW TO BUILD A GIRL
I’m Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I’m wise enough to know that everyone around me is handling fame very, very badly.
My unrequited love, John Kite, has scored an unexpected Number One album, then exploded into a Booze And Drugs HellTM – as rockstars do. And my new best friend – the maverick feminist Suzanne Banks, of The Branks – has amazing hair, but writer’s block and a rampant pill problem. So I’ve decided I should become a Fame Doctor. I’m going to use my new monthly column for The Face to write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name.
But when my two-night-stand with edgy comedian Jerry Sharp goes wrong, people start to know my name for all the wrong reasons. ‘He’s a vampire. He destroys bright young girls. Also, he’s a total dick’ Suzanne warned me. But by that point, I’d already had sex with him. Bad sex.
Now I’m one of the girls he’s trying to destroy.
He needs to be stopped.
But how can one woman stop a bad, famous, powerful man?
Critics Review
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Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump
HELEN FIELDING, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary
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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
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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
NINA STIBBE
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Brilliantly funny, caustic social commentary with the best-wish fulfilment revenge scene I've read, like, ever
THE POOL
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A rollicking fantasy which leaves a rosy afterglow
GUARDIAN
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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
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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
DAISY BUCHANAN, bestselling author of How To Be A Grown-Up
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On every page you'll find yourself tits-deep in word treasure. A filthy, gutsy, exhilarating call to arms
EMMA-JANE UNSWORTH, bestselling author of Animals
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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
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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, annoyingly
STUART MACONIE
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Details
- Author
- Caitlin Moran
- Narrator
- Louise Brealey
- Duration
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 June 2018
- ISBN
- 9781473553828
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Humour, Narrative theme: coming of age, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran, read by Louise Brealey.Life is always better backstage, isn't it?A funny, riotous novel about a young women making it in a world where men hold all the power from the Sunday Times bestselling author of HOW TO BUILD A GIRLI’m Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I’m wise enough to know that everyone around me is handling fame very, very badly. My unrequited love, John Kite, has scored an unexpected Number One album, then exploded into a Booze And Drugs HellTM – as rockstars do. And my new best friend – the maverick feminist Suzanne Banks, of The Branks – has amazing hair, but writer’s block and a rampant pill problem. So I’ve decided I should become a Fame Doctor. I’m going to use my new monthly column for The Face to write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name.But when my two-night-stand with edgy comedian Jerry Sharp goes wrong, people start to know my name for all the wrong reasons. ‘He’s a vampire. He destroys bright young girls. Also, he’s a total dick’ Suzanne warned me. But by that point, I’d already had sex with him. Bad sex. Now I’m one of the girls he’s trying to destroy. He needs to be stopped. But how can one woman stop a bad, famous, powerful man?
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