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How to Be Famous
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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?
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- IsaB
- 29-10-2018
Heart bursting joyful, laugh out loud, moving fabulousness!!
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!
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- Mrs. K. Skarbek
- 28-08-2019
Fabulous, funny and tender.
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-08-2018
I am so sad this adventure is over!
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.
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- Julie Robertson
- 30-04-2020
Smart, funny and something ever woman should read
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!
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