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How to Be Famous

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How to Be Famous

By: Caitlin Moran
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
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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 best-selling 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 19, 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?

©2018 Caitlin Moran (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks
Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Women's Fiction Funny Comedy Feel-Good Inspiring Witty Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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The funniest, most quotable, joyful, uplifting read! I recommend with all my crazy heart and soul!

wonderful!

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If you lived in London in the late 1990’s, as I did at uni, this book is a fantastic reminisce of teenage girlhood and party time. I loved everything minute and reference and turn of phrase. Excellent

Fantastically nostalgic

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I found some of this book pure brilliane and some simply good. Chapter 30 really struck a chord with me. I wanted to print it out and hand it to all the women I know . My husband and I listened to it together and he enjoyed it too.

Wonderful

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Caitlin Moran he’s done it again! This book is the best thing I’ve read in ages. An hilarious, inspiring and entertaining read with complicated characters and situations. A masterclass on how to take your power back when no on wants to give it to you. Simultaneously heart breaking and warming! I love this book so much and hope to get my daughter to read it too. Thank you Caitlin Moran, my sooo feels a little lighter xx

I love this book so much

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I liked it - it was very funny while also highlighting some of the depressing realities of being a female. I just felt the ending was rather abrupt.

Enjoyable but an abrupt end

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