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How to be Famous

The laugh-out-loud Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller

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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 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?

 Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Women's Fiction Comedy Funny
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Critic Reviews

Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump (HELEN FIELDING, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary)
It's quite a ride, this book. It's laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic and fiercely angry. Often all at once ... beautifully written
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)
Brilliantly funny, caustic social commentary with the best-wish fulfilment revenge scene I've read, like, ever
A rollicking fantasy which leaves a rosy afterglow (Book of the Day)
A glorious life-affirming love letter to teenage girls, pop music, best friends and that one guy you'll never get enough of
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)
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)
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
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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This is a story that will touch the heart and soul of every woman! So many, “oh I know what feels like” moments, alongside the wonderful, insightful, visceral, vibrant way the character Johanna feels and deals with what life throws at her. On a backdrop of the 90s with all the intensity we feels at 19, this story speaks to the heart and confronts the real fears and struggles we feel when we enter the world of grown up life, sex, love, and deciding who we are and how we tell the world!!

And, I absolutely loved the way Moran describes New York!! Absolutely nailed it!

Heart bursting joyful, laugh out loud, moving fabulousness!!

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I love Caitlin Moran. I love her wit and her rawness and her story-telling is the best.
Listen to this if you want a hearty, chuckle some read. Read it especially if you are a child of the 80’s and from the midlands, like me, where every aside is like giggling with an old friend over all the things that made the 90’s brilliant. Read it if you want a bloody good laugh.
I have a teenage daughter and I will make her read everything by Caitlin Moran (when she is old enough) because it’s an education. In what it’s like to be young, foolish, in-love and learning, every moment what it is to be fully yourself.
Narration, is excellent.

Fabulous, funny and tender.

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Dolly is every one of us. This book is a brilliant trilogy to her series. I laughed so hard at some parts of this book and would enforce future women too read this.
thank you Caitlin for never failing to disappoint.

I am so sad this adventure is over!

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Caitlin Morans writing and narrative in the book has so many airs of fleabag in terms of the things I think a lot of women think about but don’t say out loud or put down on paper. This is both powerful, funny and affirming! Done if the funniest one liners and descriptors of the female “horn” I have ever seen/heard in my entire life. I’d read it again!

Smart, funny and something ever woman should read

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