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    Namedropper

    By Emma Forrest

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    Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor. But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued, star-fixated, clever and restless, Viva is like no other girl - and this is no ordinary summer ...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateOct 8, 2014
    ISBN9781408860205
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    Emma Forrest

    Emma Forrest has published three novels, an essay collection and the memoir Your Voice In My Head. An Anglo-American currently based in London, she recently wrote and directed her feature debut, Untogether. Her latest novel, Royals, is due out in 2019. @GirlInterrupter

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      Quirky first-hand look at a young girl growing up in London. She's obsessed with movie stars and drama. She falls in love with a pop star (a marginal gender-bender) and then, in a triumph of sorts, at the end, a real boy. The writing is superb and the voice is unforgettable (lots of 1990s pop references) but references to drugs, sex (off-screen), and self-mutilation) dictate that is not for every taste.