β Scribed by Caitlin Moran
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A hilarious, heartfelt sequel toHow to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who theNew York Timescalled, "rowdy and fearless . . . sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways."
You canβt have your best friend be famous if youβre not famous. It doesnβt work. Youβre emotional pen-friends. You can send each other lettersβbut youβre 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 1994βs 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 Pinocchioβshe 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 girlβthey are won. Well, Johanna will re-write the stories, and win John, through her writing.
But as Johannaβs 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 Famousis a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune-and all they entail.
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