Life is always better backstage, isn't it?
'Who better than Caitlin Moran tobring fame down to earthwith a bump'-Helen Fielding, bestselling author ofBridget Jones's Diary
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
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ImJohanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but Im 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 feministSuzanne Banks, of The Branks has amazing hair, but writers block and a rampant pill problem. So Ive decided I should become aFame Doctor. Im going to use my new monthly column forThe Faceto write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name.
But when my two-night-stand with edgy comedianJerry Sharpgoes wrong, people start to knowmyname for all the wrong reasons. Hes a vampire. He destroys bright young girls. Also, hes a total dick Suzanne warned me. But by that point, Id already had sex with him.Badsex. Now Im one of the girls hes trying to destroy. He needs to be stopped.
But how can one woman stop a bad, famous, powerful man?
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'Adeliciously funnysequel toHow to Build a Girl'-Red Magazine
'This is funny, philosophical, and poignant in equal measure.Gloriousand life-enhancing'- Nina Stibbe
'A filthy, gutsy,exhilaratingcall to arms' -Emma-Jane Unsworth
Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill Murray.
She published a childrens novel,The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16, and became a columnist atThe Timesat 18. She has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point, she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes the as hte. Her multi-award-winning bestsellerHow to Be a Womanhas been published in 28 countries, and won the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism,MoranthologyandMoranifesto, wereSunday Timesbestsellers, and her novel,How to Build a Girl, debuted at Number One, and is currently being adapted as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose dOr-winning Channel 4 sitcomRaised by Wolveswith her sister, Caroline.
Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23, and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as a very sexual humanitarian.
