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    How to Be Famous: A Novel
    How to Be Famous: A Novel
    How to Be Famous: A Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    How to Be Famous: A Novel

    Written by Caitlin Moran

    Narrated by Louise Brealey

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    A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, ""rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways.""

    You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It doesn’t work. You’re emotional pen-friends. You can send each other letters—but you’re not doing anything together. You live in different countries.

    Johanna Morrigan (AKA Dolly Wilde) has it all: at eighteen, she lives in her own flat in London and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. But Johanna is miserable. Her best friend and man of her dreams John Kite has just made it big in 1994’s hot new BritPop scene. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses.

    Never one to sit on the sidelines, Johanna hatches a plan: she will Saint Paul his Corinthians, she will Jimmy his Pinocchio—she will write a monthly column, by way of a manual to the famous, analyzing fame, its power, its dangers, and its amusing aspects. In stories, girls never win the girl—they are won. Well, Johanna will re-write the stories, and win John, through her writing.

    But as Johanna’s own star rises, an unpleasant one-night stand she had with a stand-up comedian, Jerry Sharp, comes back to haunt in her in a series of unfortunate consequences. How can a girl deal with public sexual shaming? Especially when her new friend, the up-and-coming feminist rock icon Suzanne Banks, is Jimmy Cricketing her?

    For anyone who has been a girl or known one, who has admired fame or judged it, and above all anyone who loves to laugh till their sides ache, How to Be Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune-and all they entail.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9780062848390
    Author

    Caitlin Moran

    Caitlin Moran’s debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won Columnist of the Year seven times. She lives in London.

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    • 5/5
      Strong words for wonderful women. Vibrant, bold and tender, straight to the heart of the matter.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed tearing through this sequel to the excellent How To Build A Girl in the space of a few days. How To Be Famous is a hilarious and sad love letter to teenage girls, music and fighting back in the face of disaster, all set at the time that Britpop first exploded onto the scene. As someone who had posters of all of the 90s boy/indie bands on my teenage bedroom walls, it was also quite a nostalgic read!It's not all rose-tinted glasses, though - Moran raises some very important issues about the particular laddishness of the music industry and press in the mid-90s, and the consequences this had for women working in the field at the time - which are very similar to the issues women face on social media/the internet today, and as part of #MeToo.I really hope we meet Johanna/Dolly again on a third installment - I would love to find out how things turn out for her a few years down the line.
    • 5/5
      Such funny, original, honest writing, that I didn’t want to finish. I loved her reasoning in support of girls having sex with rock gods: unlike your dad’s mates they’re not going to tell you the stuff they’ve just bought from Wicks. If you appreciate sentences like: ‘John’s life was like a zoo on fire....I didn’t want to be a sidelined penguin. I wanted to be the whole ark’, then you will love this.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful, rude, rumbustious novel set in the 1995 Brit-pop scene in London. Teenager Dolly Wilde is in love with pop star John Kite, her best friend but not her lover. She ekes out a name for herself as a cheeky young columnist, but a nasty, misogynist male comedian tries to take her down. Music, feminism, wisdom, innocence, sexuality, and youth combine with Caitlin Moran's trademark wit to make this a brilliant (and very rude) coming of age story.