How to be Famous

Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump – HELEN FIELDING, bestselling author of Bridget Jones’s DiaryIt’s quite a ride, this book. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, sweetly romantic and fiercely angry. Often all at once … beautifully written * THE TIMES *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 STIBBEBrilliantly funny, caustic social commentary with the best-wish fulfilment revenge scene I’ve read, like, ever * THE POOL *A rollicking fantasy which leaves a rosy afterglow – Book of the Day * GUARDIAN *A glorious life-affirming love letter to teenage girls, pop music, best friends and that one guy you’ll never get enough of * RED MAGAZINE *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-UpOn every page you’ll find yourself tits-deep in word treasure. A filthy, gutsy, exhilarating call to arms – EMMA-JANE UNSWORTH, bestselling author of AnimalsA 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 * IRISH INDEPENDENT *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

Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill Murray. She published a children’s novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16, and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point, she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes ‘the’ as ‘hte’. Her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 28 countries, and won the British Book Awards’ Book of the Year 2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto, were Sunday Times bestsellers, and her novel, How to Build a Girl, debuted at Number One, and is currently being adapted as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose d’Or-winning Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves with her sister, Caroline. Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues, or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23, and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as ‘a very sexual humanitarian’.

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