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How to Be Famous
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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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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- BKJ
- 20-04-23
So so good
Amazing book! Love Caitlin Moran.
Read most of her books and this one didn’t disappoint either. Hysterically funny. Great performance too.
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- Faith Margaret Wallbank
- 30-12-18
No difficult second album here!
An amazing sequal to the incredible How to Build A Girl.
I wish I had these books at 17, I think it would have changed my life! Instead it has warmed blmy heart at 33.
A must!
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- Nimisha Patel
- 06-07-18
One of the best coming of age books
This book is amazing, wondrous, funny and a brilliant telling about the life of teenage girls. It has brightened up my journey to and from work everyday, taken me back through my life and got the heart of some very real teenage thoughts and fears. I love that Caitlin Morgan has no qualms to write about all of this and Louise Brealey does a fantastic job of doing so many varied accents and pitches, so much so that the characters are recognisable from one word of speech. Thank you so much for this story and audio book. I couldn't believe the end came so soon and I wish there were more. Somehow I hope that this is the conclusion though.
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- S. McGrath
- 20-11-19
Funny and a whole lot more
I bought this book because I thought it would be hilarious, which it is. But it also has three incredible central characters. And is wise, tender, full of powerful ideas, romantic and very well written. I loved it.
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- Daisy Diamond
- 15-07-18
wonderful!
The funniest, most quotable, joyful, uplifting read! I recommend with all my crazy heart and soul!
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- Sus Jeffries
- 20-07-18
Beautiful
I loved this book. I really really loved it.
It is funny and smart and resoundingly feminist and, in the end, really beautiful.
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- Louisa Constantine
- 02-12-18
What a wonderful woman! Caitlin Moran I absolutely love you.
Profound, funny and honest. This book is a journey through the shame and joy of becoming a woman. I wish I had had this for direction when I was young, Moran verbalises the unspoken truth that girls are powerful and provocative and that is nothing to apologise for.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-19
Just love.
Love for Caitlin, the story, the narrator, women everywhere, Zee but mostly Mr John Kite.
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- Craig M. Hanson
- 04-07-18
Made me Blub
It’s very heartening to read about a woman’s innermost thoughts & find that they chime with my own. Caitlin Moran has made me blub on many occasions& I don’t mind admitting it.
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- Mr Monti
- 08-01-21
Loved it!
The best book for young feminists. One day I'll give it to my daughter.
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