How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran

How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran

A Library Journal Best Book of 2018

"Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump?" --Helen Fielding, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary.

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman--a hilarious, exhilarating novel about a young woman making it in a world where men hold all the power.

Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking.

Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous parents, mind-scorching hotness, exotic scandals, etc.), so she does the only thing a self-respecting Lady Sex Adventurer can do. She starts a magazine column critiquing the lives and follies of the Famouses around her. But as Johanna skyrockets to fame herself, she begins to realize that with celebrity comes sacrifice, and hers may mean giving up the one person she was determined to keep.

For anyone who has been a girl or known one, who has admired fame or judged it, How to Be Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune--and all that they entail.

The British Press Awards honored Caitlin Moran Columnist of the Year in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011 for her work in the Times of London. How to Be a Woman, her first book, earned the Galaxy Book of the Year Award in 2011 and became an instant New York Times bestseller. How to Create a Girl is her first novel since the one she wrote when she was fourteen years old, which does not count. Caitlin Moran can be followed on Twitter at @CaitlinMoran.