It’s been four years since the debut novel How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran came out. Those who have followed this blog for a while (all nine of you! Bless!) know what that the spectacular Moran is a personal heroine of mine. As a writer she’s someone I look up to as well. Her stories are about women who we can relate to, she talks about being a woman honestly and with great love and humor.
Her next book How to Be Famous is out tomorrow and I’m excited to rejoin Caitlin’s character Dolly/Johanna as she moves to London.
Here is the Blurb:
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 1994’s 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 Pinocchio—she 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 girl—they are won. Well, Johanna will re-write the stories, and win John, through her writing.
But as Johanna’s 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 Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune-and all they entail.
Also here is a recent interview with Moran as she swigs cider in her bathtub with Sali Hughs.
Do you see why I LOVE HER?!
If you’d like to find me tomorrow I’ll be in my bathtub swigging cider and reading How to Be Famous.
Kathleen Rear 
That sounds like it would be a fun book to read!
I’d better get busy and finish the second one of yours.
I love the idea of writing about the small things and not having a dramatic plot (similar to what I’m trying to do…) Sounds like a must read! And yes cidre in bath tubs (or on back patios!)
Have a great time…sounds like the perfect 4th!